PREFACE. 
vii. 
Tlie Twelftli Report is dated from South Brisbane, 1st January, 1854, and 
describes the basalts of the Condamine River and its tributaries, and the portion of the 
Ipswich Coal Rield extending from the Basaltic Range of Toowoomba to Brisbane, and is 
accompanied by a Geological Map of the district between Dalby and the mouth of the 
Brisbane River. 
The Thirteenth Report is dated from the Pine River, 20th May, 1854, and is 
descriptive of the Ipswich Coal Measures. It is accompanied by a Geological Map of 
the District from Ipswich down the Brisbane River and northward to Caloundra Point, 
and another showing the Coal crops of the Rivers Brisbane and Bremer. 
The Pourteenth Report dates from Durundur, 1st August, 1854, and describes 
the Country from the North Pine River, ‘vid Cabooiture, to Durundur. In this Report 
Mr. Stutchbury sums up his observations on the portion of the Ipswich Coal Picld 
visited by him, and it is evident that he had not grasped the idea that it was separable 
from the Permo-Carboniferous Coal Measures of New South Wales proper. 
The Fifteenth Report, dated from Auckland Creek, near Gladstone, in January, 
1855, deals with the Country from Colinton to Gladstone, and is accompanied by a 
Geological Map extending from the junction of the Brisbane and -Stanley Rivers to the 
mouth of the Bejme River. 
Mr. Stutchbury’s Sixteenth and last Keport is dated from Sydney, 20lh 
November, 1855, and describes part of the Coast District between the Boyne and 
Fitzroy Rivers, and is accompanied by a Geological Map. 
Mr. Stutchbury’s Reports display keen powers of observation, and are not known 
so well as they ought to be. They are, however, extremely difficult to obtain. 
• 
In 1868 Mr. D’Oyley H. Aplin was appointed Geologist for the Southern 
District of the new Colony of Queensland, and in the same year Mr. Richard Daintree, 
C.M.G., both formerly of the Geological Survey of Victoria, was appointed Geologist 
for the Northern District. Mr. Aplin held the appointment till the end of 1869, and 
Mr. Daintree to the end of 1871. 
Mr. Aplin’s Reports are seven in number, all in fcp., the first two, or perhaps 
three, published as Legislative Council, and the remainder as Legislative Assembly 
Papers. 
His First Report, “ On the Geological and Mining Features of the Gympie 
Gold Field,” is dated 2nd July, 1868. 
The Second is a Report, dated 10th August, 1868, which I have never been able 
to obtain. 
• The Third, dated 23rd October, 1868, is a “ Report of the Government Geologist 
of the Southern District,” descriptive of an examination (for Gold) of the Country on 
the east side of the D’ Aguilar Range, and of the Neurum-Neurum and Delaney’s 
Creeks and adjacent Country, as far as the junction of fhe former with the Stanley 
River. 
