Description of the Palæozoic and Mesozoic Fossils of Queensland

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Introduction . Mr. Daintree's late explorations in Queensland have added much to our knowledge of the distribution of extinct life over that extensive colony. A slight history or résumé of the progress of geological and palæontological discovery in Australia may not be out of place, and will show the difficulties attending research in a country almost untrodden and only, of necessity, very partially examined. It is hoped that the local societies may be induced to work up the varied and rich fossil fauna surrounding those cities now so extensively peopled in New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia; and it is partly with this view that we are induced to figure the species found fossil in Queensland, many of which are new, and a few common to Asia and Europe. A knowledge of the wide distribution of identical forms and extension of old seas, under different conditions, can only be established by the united labours of many in the same field of investigation. India is now being well explored, America equally so, Southern Africa is being gradually examined; and much of Victoria has been carefully surveyed; yet we know little of the real palæontology of Australia, owing to the few published detailed descriptions and figures of the fossil fauna of the stratified rocks of the country. The labours, however, of the Rev. W. B. Clarke upon the spot, and of Professor Owen and Mr. Moore England, have thrown some light upon the distribution of extinct life in those rocks. At the

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