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Sedimentary Formations 
Remarks on the preceding Lists. 
The arrangement of the above fossils cannot be considered entirely satis¬ 
factory, and it is due to the memory of tny lately departed friend Mr, Salter 
to give some explanation of the matter, ft had long been my desire to place 
in the Woodwardiun Museum, at Cambridge, us nearly a complete series of 
rocks and fossils from New South Wales as I could obtain in the course of 
my explorations in the Colony* 
In November, 1811, I forwarded to my friend Prof. Sedgwick four large 
casks containing the first series from ’districts named in Appendix iff. 
One of these casks, it appears, did not reach its destination, and must have 
been lost on the voyage, or on its way to Cambridge. From the remainder 
Prof. M-Coy, then engaged with the Wood ward inn Palaeozoic collections, 
afterwards so ably discussed and described, in 1855, in the joint volume of the 
two geologists (“Synopsis of the Classification of the British Pa l a-azoic Pocks, 
with a systematic description of the British Pa/aozoic Fossils in the Grot. 
Museum of the CTniv. of Camhidye"), undertook to describe and publish at 
Ins learned colleague’s request and charge, in the “ Annals A Magazine of 
JSat. Jhistory, vol. XX,’ many of the vegetable and Marine fossils that 
remained of my collection, under the title of—' “ On the Fossil Botany am/ 
Zoology of the Rocks associated with the Coal of Australia ” and in one of t he 
present lists these so-described fossils have been enumerated. 
In the year 1855, having entered upon a new field of research — the former 
having been confined chiefly to the examination of flic Coal Measures and the 
Marine bosfiils of the Upper Pabcozoic associated with them, ns will be seen 
by the letter (c) in the list already referred to— and having obtained a con¬ 
siderable collection of fossils from the Middle and Lower Palaeozoic rocks, 1 
forwarded to my friend Professor Sedgwick, in continuation of mv purpose of 
completing the exhibition of the New South Wales fossil succession, a series 
of such fossils as would show that below the Carboniferous strata, Devonian 
and at least Upper Silurian formations exist in this Colony. 
No description of the fossils having been obtainable from Cambridge, I 
wrote both to Prof. Sedgwick and to Sir R. I. Murchison, the latter of whom 
borrowed them at ray request from the former, and submitted them to 
Messrs. Lonsdale and Salter, who did their best to meet the necessity, hut 
could not complete the work. 
A letter of the former I have already put in evidence, andfextracts of letters 
from the lalter will be appended to these remarks, which are made public in 
justice to my friends Sedgwick, Murchison, Lonsdale, and Salter, all of whom 
are now deceased. 
Subsequently to this T entered into further arrangement with Mr. Salter, who 
undertook to complete a description, with figures, of a considerable number 
of Lower Pabcozoic and Devonian species, lint his death prevented the work. 
This collection, therefore, was left lindescribed. except in the way recorded, 
till after 1 ho deaths of Murchison and Sedgwick. Not being able to know 
wlmt bad been done with them by the former, I wrote to Professor Hughes, 
his successor at Cambridge, who very promptly informed me that on inquiry 
ho was unable to learn what had become of these fossils, or whether they lmd 
been returned to the Cambridge Museum—which, of course, he could not 
^ermine from personal knowledge. As Mr. Salter said, that with those he 
darned there were other “ several beautiful species/’ it is possible that some 
valuab'c additions to palaeontology may have occurred, as lie made particular 
