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between liana’s Camps 41 and 42 {Northern Expedition Efpor{) 
and forwarded them to the Queensland Agent Grcneral in London, 
for inspection by Palaeontologists at Home. Mr. Etheridge, the 
Palaeontologist of the Survey of Great Britain, considers the 
fossils in that conglomerate rock to be a species of lUnnites 
like II. vclfilris and an Oatrea like O. Soiverhpiiy and that 
they belong to the Oolitic series. The same conglomerate 
as I learn by a more recent arrival, occurs on the high ranges 
between the Palmer and Cooktown, under the deposit which Mr. 
Daintree calls Desert sandstone. It is a coarse rock containing 
broken shells in a sandstone full of partly rounded pebbles. Mr. 
Etheridge also considers the IValsli Hirer series to be of Lower 
Cretaceous forms. Some specimens ot plants supposed to be 
Glossopterls were also forwarded b}^ me to Europe, with the 
shelly rock. Mr. Carruthers’ determination is, that they were 
not of that genus, but rather a form of Tamioptcris nearly allied 
to Stanejerites enfiis (Oldham and Morris in the Indian Survey 
Memoirs), which Scdiimper calls Anpiopteridends. Another speci- 
men which I did not see in the great collection, but of which I 
had a drawing from Mr. Taylor, was considered by several 
geologists in Queensland, Ac., to be Orthoceras, and, therefore, 
Palteozoic. Mr. Daintree says there were several specimens like 
Orthoceras; and bo I think the one in question was, hut I con- 
sidered at the time that there was no Orthoceras present in the 
box, but a good many Eelemuites, and I considered the sketch 
referred to was of the same genus. 
I have since received the following statement, — “There was no 
sjiecimcn of Orthoceras in the entire series,” 
I have also received a list of the genera of Walsh Eiver fossils, 
in Mr. Etheridge’s handwriting. It is as follows, making all of 
them lower Cretaceous : — 
Ammonites, allied to A. Clypeiformis. 
Ammonites sp. 
Crioceri. 
Belemnitcs. 
My a cites. 
Byssoarca. 
Solemya or Iridina. 
Area. 
Panopsea. 
Inoceramus. 
Ilinnitcs or Avicula. 
Cytherca. 
Cyprina. 
Myoconcha. 
Pecten. 
Teredo or Teredina, in fossil wood. 
