PREFACE. 
xui. 
(80.) Beport on the New Discovery of Coal near the Callide Creeh, Port Curtis 
District. W.H.E. Fcp. (C. A. Paper), 1891. 
(81.) Beport on Sapphire Deposits and Gold and Silver Mines near Withersfield. 
B.L.J. Fcp. (C. A. Paper), 1892. With a Map. 
(82.) Beport on the Kangaroo Hills Silver and Tin Mines. B.L. J . Fcp. (C. A. 
Paper), 1892. With a Geological Map. 
(83.) Third Beport on the Mount Morgan Gold Deposits. B.L.J. Fcp. (C. A. Paper), 
1892. With Maps, Views, and Sections. 
(84.) Beport on the Styx Biver Coal Field. W.H.B. Fcp. (C. A. Paper), 1892. 
With Geological Map. 
(85.) Geological Observations in British New Guinea in 1891. A.G.M. Fcp. (C. A. 
Paper), 1892. With Geological Maps and Sections. 
(86.) Beport on Olsen’s and Johannsen’s Caves, near Bocihampton. W .H.B. Fcp. 
(C. A. Paper), 1892. With Map and Plate. 
(87.) Beport on Supposed Gold-hearing Quartzites, near Traveston and Glastonbury ; 
and on Hyalite in Basalt, near Cooran. W.H.B. Fcp. (C. A. Paper), 1892. 
(88.) Annual Progress Beport of the Geological Survey for the Year 1891. Fcp. 
(C. A. Paper), 1892. 
From February, 1889, to his death, on 10th April, 1891, Mr. James Smith was 
employed as Collector for the Survey. Mr. Smith had for many years previously been 
collecting fossils and other Natural History specimens, many of which he donated to the 
Geological Survey. His appointment to the staff of the Survey enriched the collections 
with representative fossils from Eockhampton, Langmorn, Eaglan, Broadsound, Bar- 
caldine, the Drummond Range, and the Ipswich Coal Field. Mr. Smith, who was an 
enthusiastic naturalist, wrote a Paper “ On the Discovery of Fossils at Rock- 
hampton,”* and contributed numerous articles to the Natural History Society of Rock- 
hampton and the Roclcham'pton Eulletin. His place on the Survey will be very difficult 
to fill. 
Mr. William Wood acted as Caretaker to the Survey Museum from 28th May, 
1886, to 31st May, 1891, when he retired, owing to the failure of his health. His place 
is now filled by Mr. Thomas Sythers. 
My Colleague, Mr. Robert Etheridge, Junr., has acted as Consulting Paleon- 
tologist in an honorary capacity ever since my arrival in Queensland. His connection 
with the British Museum, the Australian Museum, and the Geological Survey of New 
South Wales, and his former connection with the Geological Surveys of Victoria and 
Scotland, rendered him peculiarly fitted for this task. To my association with him in 
Scotland, I owe a fidendship which has been very valuable to me as well as to the Colony 
of Queensland. The magnitude of Mr. Etheridge’s labours on our behalf may be esti- 
mated by his contribution to the present work. 
For some time back I have urged on the Government the attachment of a 
Chemist to the staff of the Survey. The three working members of the staff are 
chiefly employed, and can always be most profita,bly empfloyed in the field, and have 
little time to devote to micro-petrographical work or to the chemical questions which 
arise in the course of their observations. I am, however, enabled through the kindness 
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