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RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
DETERMINATION OF THE EXACT LOCALITIES 
WHERE CAMBRIAN FOSSILS WERE COLLECTED 
BY E. T. HARDMAN IN 1884. 
By LUDWIG GLAUERT, F.G.S. 
In 1884, the late Mr. E. T. Hardman, F.G.S , visited the 
valley of the Ord River in the Kimberley district, where he collected 
a number of specimens which, together with many others obtained 
during that and the previous expedition into the Kimberleys, were 
mostly deposited in the Geological Museum, Fremantle, and the 
Swan River Mechanics’ Institute, Perth. 
The pieces of limestone which were consequently found to 
contain Cambrian fossils were placed in the hands of Mr. R. 
Etheridge, Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney, for exam- 
ination. His manuscript notes, afterwards handed to Mr. A. H. 
Foord for incorporation in his “ Description of Fossils from the 
Kimberley District, Western Australia,” 1 first demonstrate the 
presence of Cambrian beds in this State. The fossils described are 
the Pteropod Salterella hardmani and the Trilobite Olenellus (?) 
forresti. 
The localities given with the published descriptions are 
“ Kimberley District ” for t he former, and “ River south of Base Line, 
Kimberley District ” for the latter. These, it must be admitted, 
are very vague. 
Numerous attempts have been made to discover the spot where 
the specimens were collected but without avail. 
Mr. R. Etheridge stated in 1906 2 that Mr. Hardman’s 
“ specimens were very poorly localised, and I have quite failed to 
identify his precise locality.” 
Dr. R. Logan Jack had an opportunity of traversing a great 
deal of the country surveyed by Flardman, but he, too, was 
1 Geol Mag. Dec. III., Vol. VII., p. 98, et. seq. 
3 Northern Territory of South Australia; N.-W. District Reports (Geological 
and General) resulting from the Explorations made by the Government 
Geologist and Staff during 1905 ; General Geology, p. 42, 1906. 
