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literature to Queensland fossils until about twenty years 
later. 
In 1844 Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt made his memorable 
journey from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, and in 
the records written around that expedition appear the 
first references to both animal and plant fossils from 
Queensland territory. The late Rev. W. B. Clarke, who 
in 1847 and 1848 described these fossils, may thus be 
regarded as the founder of Queensland Palaeontology. 
In the eighty years that have passed since Clarke 
published his work the progress in the study of the fossil 
faunas and floras of this State has been particularly 
interesting. It is not the purpose of this paper to give a 
chronological account of these advances, but it may be 
of interest to note that no fewer than fifty-eight palaeon- 
tologists have assistsed in this work on Queensland fossils. 
The list of these workers is as follows : Charles Anderson, 
D’Oyly Aplin, Newell Arber, W. II. Benson, J. S. Bower - 
bank, W. H. Bryan, W. Carruthers, Frederick Chapman, 
W. B. Clarke, Sir Edgeworth David, Sir William Dawso, 
Henry Deane, C. W. De Vis, W. S. Dun, B. Dunstan, R. 
Etheridge, R. Etheridge, Jr., Baron von Ettingshausen, 
0. Feistmantel, J. W. Gregory, Charles Hedley, Rudolf 
Heinz, Dorothy Hill, G. J. Hinde, Walter Ilowchin, II. 
A. Longman, C. Lumholz, B. Lundgren, Richard Lyd- 
deker, J. II. Maiden, John Mitchell, Sir Frederick McCoy, 
Allan McCulloch, Charles Moore, C. T. Musson, Alleyne 
Nicholson, Sidneu Olliff, Sir Richard Owen, John Phillips, 
W. H. Rands, Felix Ratte, J. H. Reid, H. C. Richards, 
Birbal Sahni, II. G. Seeley, A. C. Seward, John Shirley, 
Stanley Smith, Voss Smith, L. F. Spath, Marie Slopes, 
Julian Tenison- Woods, R. J. Tillyard, A. B. Walkom, 
J. H. Walton, F. W. Whitehouse, H. Woodward, and 
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward. 
Although some of these workers, e.g., Sir Richard 
Owen, were interested purely in the biological aspect of 
the fossils the progress of geological enquiry in Queens- 
land owes much to the fact that most of these palaeon- 
tologists were keenly alive to the stratigraphical import- 
ance of the faunas and floras which they examined. 
The year 1892 is the culminating period in the history 
of Queensland Palaeontology. Previously most of the 
work was in the form of records or description of small 
collections of fossils, either from some particular area or 
belonging to some definite biological group. But three 
works of outstanding importance appeared in these early 
years which satisfactorily laid the foundations of strati- 
graphical palaeontology in Queensland. In .1870 Charles 
