New South Wales. 
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between Hann’s Camps 11 and 42 ( Northern Expedition Report') 
and forwarded them to the Queensland Agent General in London, 
for inspection by Paleontologists at Home. Mr. Etheridge, the 
Palaeontologist of the Survey of Great Britain, considers the 
fossils in that conglomerate rock to be a species of Hinnites 
like II. velatris and an Ostrca like O. Sowerbyii } 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 Walsh River, series to be of Lower 
Cretaceous forms. {Some specimens of plants supposed to be 
Glossopteris were also forwarded by mo to Europe, with the 
shelly rock. Mr. Carruthers 1 determination is, that they were 
not of that genus, but rather a form of Tamiopteris nearly allied 
to Stangerites ensis (Oldham and Morris in the Indian Survey 
Memoirs), which Schimper calls Angiopteridcnsis. Another speci¬ 
men which 1 did not see in the great collection, but of which I 
had a drawing from Mr. Taylor, was considered by several 
geologists in Queensland, &c., to be Orthoceras, and, therefore, 
Palaeozoic. Mr. Daintree says there were several specimens like 
Orthoceras; and so I think the one in question was, but I con¬ 
sidered at the time that there was no Orthoceras present in the 
box, but a good many Belemnites, and I considered the sketch 
referred to was of the same genus. 
I have since received the following statement,—“Thero was no 
specimen of Orthoceras in the entire series.” 
I have also received a list of the genera of Walsh River fossils, 
in Mr. Etheridge’s handwriting. It is as follows, making all of 
them lower Cretaceous : — 
Ammonites, allied to A. Clypeiformis. 
Ammonites sp. 
Crioceri. 
Belemnites. 
Myacites. 
Byssoarca. 
Solemya or Iridina. 
Area. 
Panopsea. 
Inoceramus. 
Hinnites or Avicula. 
Cytherea. 
Cyprina. 
Myoconcha. 
Pecten. 
Teredo or Teredina, in fossil wood. 
