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constrained to admit that he had failed to trace the Cambrian 
limestone beds from which the Salterella and the Olenellus were 
collected. In fact, he considered the task so hopeless that he 
remarked in 1906^: “The palaeontological evidence is also exceed- 
ingly meagre and, scientifically speaking, ought to be ignored, as 
the two localities from which Hardman collected Cambrian fossils 
. . . have been defined too vaguely for identification as Kimberley 
District and River south of Base Line.” 
In his presidential address to Section C (Geology) at the 
Adelaide Meeting of the Australian Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science in 1907, Mr. A. Gibb Maitland gives as his 
opinion'': “Despite the fact of poor localisation of Hardman’s 
fossils, it may, I think, be taken for granted that Cambrian beds do 
occur somewhere in Kimberley about South latitude 18°. The 
recent discovery of Olenellus and Salterella in the limestones of the 
Daly River in the Northern Territory by Messrs. Brown and 
Basedow is of considerable geological importance, indicating a 
somewhat wide distribution of Cambrian strata in Northern 
Australia, and makes the solution of the Hardman puzzle almost 
imperative.” 
Mr. H. W. B. Talbot visited the Elvire and Ord rivers in his 
traverse of the route followed by the Canning Survey Party, 1907- 
1909.’ In the course of his journey from Flora Valley Station to 
Wyndham he collected several pieces of fossiliferous limestone from 
the Ord River Station. I had the good fortune to handle these 
specimens for a few moments, and as far as I could judge, the fossils 
consisted of Salterella hardmani in a hard sub-crystalline limestone 
of a greyish colour. 
These specimens are now in the hands of Mr. R. Etheridge of 
Sydney, and when his report is available I have no doubt that 
my determination of the age of the rock and the nature of its fossil 
contents will be confirmed. \ 
The subject first came under my notice when preparing the 
“ List of Western Australian Fossils,” which was offered to the 
Government Geologist and published by him in Bulletin 36 (III. 
r “The Prospects of obtaining Artesian Water in the Kimberley District.” 
G. S. W. A. Bulletin, No. 25, p. 15, 1906. 
2 Reo. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Soc., Adelaide Meeting, 1907, p 140, 1908. 
* G. Survey (W.A.) Bulletin, No. 39, Perth, 1910. 
