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Sedimentary formations 
Not very distant the same careful observer detected some of 
the same species as occur in Queensland in the middle Jurassic 
formation, described by Mr. Moore, e.g., As f arte wollumbillaensis , 
.with other genera and species, that link in the South with the 
North Island (p. 105). These discoveries justify the inference 
that Triassie rocks are probably present also in New South Wales. 
When I first announced in 18G0 the proof that Secondary fos¬ 
sils did exist in Australia, exhibited in Sydney, and forwarded 
to Sir Henry Barkly for Professor M*Coy’s inspection I 
especially mentioned the occurrence of Cretaceous species. This 
was doubted, and the whole series classified as “not higher" than 
the “ lower part of the great Oolite" But in 1SGG, the Professor 
himself announced from another part of Queensland the occur¬ 
rence of two Itiocerami, and two Ammonites , from the Blinder’s 
[River district. Ho also announced an Icthgosanrus , a JPIcsio- 
saurus , and a Belcmnitella , from lowor Cretaceous strata of the 
same district. 
Mr. Moore says, of the Wollumbilla fossils, “that they all 
belong to the Upper Oolite may with safety be inferred, but the 
Cretaceous beds have a claim to be considered, and he established 
the existence of thegenus Crioccras, which was first reported by me. 
In 1S72, Mr. Daintree, E.G.S., read his Notes on Queensland, 
before the Geological Society, the marine fossils illustrating 
which were (as before stated), described by Mr. Etheridge, F.R.S., 
E.G.S., Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of Great Britain. 
The number of Oolitic species recorded is six, and of Cretaceous, 
twenty-five. 
The expedition of 1872, in the Cape York Peninsula, in which 
Mr. Norman Taylor, of the Victorian Survey, was Geologist, has 
added to the list of Secondary fossils in Queensland. These were 
sent to me for inspection by the Minister for Public Works in 
that Colony, and at his request forwarded to the Agent General 
in London. They have not yet been fully described. 
A still further amount of Cretaceous fossils forwarded by Mr. 
Hann, the leader of the Expedition of 1872, to Mr. Etheridge, 
and a large collection iu my own cabinet, remain yet to be deter¬ 
mined. 
This is sufficient to show the extent of Mesozoic formations 
developed since 1SG0. 
Mr. Haintree reckons the areas of the Cretaceous and Oolitic 
formations in Queensland at 200,000 square miles; the Carbon¬ 
aceous (Mesozoic) at 10,000, and the Palaeozoic Carboniferous 
at 14,000, whilst the Devonian and Upper Silurian occupy 
40,000. The two younger, therefore, are more than Jive times as 
extensive as the older. 
After the Norman Taylor collection had gone to England, I 
received three or four specimens from the Table Mountain, 
