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Moore, of Bath, described the rich faunas which the Rev. 
W. B. Clarke had collected from the Cretaceous beds of 
Wallumbilla and the surrounding districts. This great 
work fortunately was illustrated by a magnificent set 
of plates ; for, in 1882, most of the specimens, including 
the great majority of the holotypes, perished in the Palace 
Garden fire in Sydney. All that remains of this collection 
is now in the Museum of the Literary and Philosophical 
Society of Bath, England. 
In 1872 Richard Da intree published his epoch-making 
work on the Geology of Queensland. This account largely 
was based on his own field work mainly in the north of 
the State, and was to have been extended by palaeon- 
tological investigations upon the large and important 
collections of fossils which he had made. Unfortunately, 
the ship “The Queen of the Thames,” on which Daintree 
was sailing to England, was wrecked and sank off the 
coast of Africa. After some time the ship and its cargo 
were salved and the fossils found their way to England. 
The fauna of this important collection, from Carbon- 
iferous, Permo-Carboniferous and Cretaceous beds, was 
described by Robert Etheridge, Senr., and the fossil 
plants, of Devonian, Permo-Carboniferous and Triassic 
age, by William Carruthers. 
In 1880 Robert Etheridge, Junr., published the third 
of these important early papers, a “Report on a Collec- 
tion of Fossils from the Bowen River Coal Field and the 
Limestone of the Fanning River, North Queensland.” 
The fossils described in it were of Devonian and Permo- 
Carboniferous age. 
The year 1892 saw the publication of the monumental 
work by Dr. R. L. Jack and Robert Etheridge, Junr., 
on “The Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and 
New Guinea.” This amazingly complete work forms the 
standard reference for all later investigations into 
geological and palaeontological problems in Queens- 
land . Etheridge was responsible for the fmelaeon- 
tological investigations. His work took the 
form of a critical revision o*f all published 
accounts of Queensland fossils and a description of all 
the vast collections from the State lodged in the various 
Museums. To Queensland Geologists it is a work of 
comparable scope and comparable value to that of 
Sowerby in England, d’Orbigny in France, Goldfuss in 
Germany, and Hall in the State of New York. 
Since that time most of the palaeontological progress 
in the State has been an amplification of this great work. 
Four monographs, however, are of particular importance 
