634 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Thomas offered some remarks on the supposed origin of 

 kerosene-shale from sporangia. 



The Rev. J. Milne Curran, of Bathurst, sent for exhibition 

 specimens of a fossil fern {Tceniopferis) associated with fossil 

 fishes on the same slab of shale, from the Ballimore Coal Series, 

 30 miles IS'.E. of Dubbo ; and read the following "Note on some 

 Fossil Fish associated with Tmnioj^teris from the Ballimore 

 Series: — In March, 1884, I contributed a paper to the .Society 

 'On some Fossil Plants from Dubbo,' in which, after enumerating 

 the fossil plants then known, I remarked that 'there are some 

 forms which we should expect which are not as yet recorded from 

 Dubbo, notably Tceniopteris' (P.L.S.KS. W., 1884, p. 254). I have 

 now the pleasure of submitting a specimen of Tcenioj^teris, with 

 the added interest of its being associated with fossil fish. In 

 order to understand the import of the discovery of TceniopteiHs, 1 

 may state that, as pointed out in my paper on the Geology of 

 Dubbo, there are two very distinct formations at Dubbo, namely, 

 the Dubbo Sandstones (Hawkesbury) and the Ballimore Coal 

 Basin (I.e., 1885, p. 175). The Ballimore Series is newer 

 than the Newcastle, and older than the Clarence River beds. 

 The specimen exhibited comes from the Ballimore beds, and is 

 remarkable as the first specimen of Tceniojyteris found there, and 

 the first fish-remains discovered. Tcejiiopteris, as is well known, 

 is never found at Newcastle or associated with palaeozoic plants. 

 As to the fossil fish, I am not competent to say more than that 

 they seem clearly homocercal, and appear to belong to the Lepto- 

 lepidce" 



Mr. Etheridge remarked that a quantity of similar material 

 had been obtained by the Mines Department. 



