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GRAPTOLITES OF AUSTRALIA 
unopened and the mode of travel either by foot or horse. 
Bendigo, to refer to it again, may now be reached in a few 
hours by train or car, but in McCoy’s time the journey took 
three or four days of fatiguing travel. So, too, in T. S. HalPs 
day, when, although railways made access easier, the diffi- 
culties were still formidable. Workers like W. J. Harris 
and R. A. Keble who have carried on research both before 
and since the advent of the motor car, can appreciate the 
difficulties experienced by earlier workers and the enormous 
advantage modern workers have. 
Much of this early work on Australian graptolites has 
been overlooked, possibly because the literature is difficult of 
access, and the laborious search for new facts by the pioneers 
forgotten, for there are few left to tell. It was known to 
Nicholson, Salter, Lapworth, and other overseas workers, and 
lest it goes into the limbo of forgotten things, we have taken 
some trouble to record it. 
Abbreviations. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. — ^The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 
London. 
Ann. Rep. Dep. Mines, N.S.W. — Annual Report of the Department of 
Mines of New South Wales. Sydney. 
Arkiv f. Zool. — Arkiv for Zoologi utgivet av K. Svenska Vetenskapsaka- 
demien. Stockholm. 
Aust. Ass. Adv. Sci. — Report of the Meeting of the Australasian 
Association for the Advancement of Science. (New title, Australian 
and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science.) 
Published in city where meeting is held. 
Bui. Geol. Soc. Am. — Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 
New York. 
Bui. Geol. Surv. Viet. — Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Victoria. 
Melbourne. 
Bui. N.Y. State Mus. — Bulletin of the New York State Museum. Albany. 
Fed. Hbk. Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci. — Federal Handbook of the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science, Melbourne Meeting, 1914. Melbourne. 
Geol. Mag. — ^The Geological Magazine, London. 
Geol. Surv. Viet., Map, Q.S. — ^Geological Survey of Victoria, Geological 
Map, Quarter Sheet No. — . Melbourne. 
Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. — Journal of the Royal Society of New South 
Wales. Sydney. 
Mem. Geol. Soc. Am. — Memoirs of the Geological Society of America. 
New York. 
Mem. Geol. Surv. Viet. — Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria. 
Melbourne. 
Mem. Nat. Mus. Melb. — Memoir of the National Museum. Melbourne. 
Mem. N.Y. State Mus. — Memoir of the New York State Museum. Albany. 
Min. and Geol. Journ. — Mining and Geological Journal, Department of 
Mines. Melbourne. 
Mon. Pal. Soc. — Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society. London. 
