NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 347 



In June, 1890, in company with Mr. Englehardt, I examined 

 the Upper Marine Beds at Jamberoo, and found the common 

 fossils identical with those most common in the same beds at 

 Campbell's Hill, West Maitland. On Stockyard Mountain, and 

 about 700 feet above the Marine Beds, and immediately beneath 

 what is there known, in descending order, as the second coal-seam, 

 we found a Glossopteris Bed, in which I recognised a number of 

 the Newcastle species, together with Vertebraria australis, and 

 Pliyllotheca australis. These fossils are incontestible proofs of 

 the identity of the Southern Coal-bearing Beds with the Newcastle 

 Beds. 



Mr. Geological Surveyor David (now Prof. David) in the 

 annual report of the Department of Mines, N.S.W., for 1890, 

 declares the Newcastle and Illawarra Beds to be identical ; but if 

 I mistake not, his opinion was arrived at from other evidence 

 than the occurrence in the Illawarra district of the typical 

 Newcastle fossil flora. 



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