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acUled 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 1S72, to Mr. Etheridge, 
and a large collection in my own cabinet, remain yet to be deter¬ 
mined. 
This is sufficient to show the extent of Mesozoic formations 
developed since I860. 
Mr. Daintreo 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 IT,000, whilst the Devonian and Upper Silurian occupy 40,000. 
The two younger, therefore, are nearly four times as extensive 
as the older. 
After the u Norman Taylor” collection had gone to England, I 
received three or four specimens from the Table Mountain, 
between Hanu’s Camps 41 and 42 (“Northern Expedition Report"), 
and forwarded them to the Queensland Agent General in London 
for inspection by Paleontologists at Home. Mr. Etheridge, the 
Paleontologist of the Survey of Great Britain, considers the 
fossils in that conglomerate rock to be a species of Hinnites 
like II. velatus and an Ostrea, like O. Soioerhji and that they 
belong to the Oolitic series. The same conglomerate, as 1. learn 
by a more recent arrival, occurs on the high ranges between the 
Palmer and Cooktown, under the deposit which Mr. Daintreo 
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 me to Europe, with the 
shelly rock. Mr. Carruthors’s determination is, that they were 
not of that genus, but rather a form of Tseniopteris nearly allied 
to S'tamjerUes ensis (Oldham and Morris in the Indian Survey 
Memoirs), which Schimper calls Angioptcridensis . Another 
specimen which I 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 he Orthoceras, and, therefore, 
Palaeozoic* Mr. Daintreo says there were several specimens like 
Ortlioccras; and so I think the one in question was, but I con¬ 
sidered at the time that there was uo 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—“ There was no 
specimen of Orthoceras in the entire series.” 
