98 EECOEDS OF XEW LOCALITIES OF POLYNESIA:!! MOSSES, 



of geologic time. At present the Newcastle beds are regarded 

 as Paleozoic, and the Ipswich beds as mesozoic. I cannot find 

 any such clearly marked distinction. Many fossils are common 

 to both deposits. The Ipswich coals are very rich in fossils, 

 more rich and in better preservation than those of Newcastle. 

 Yet strangely enough only seven species are recorded. On such 

 slender materials it was hardly to be expected that satisfactory 

 and final conclusions could be arrived at. Dr. Feistmantel's 

 careful work has cleared the wa}-, and made the work much more 

 easy to local paleontologists. His complete figures and the 

 number of them leaves nothing ambiguous or unsatisfactory. 

 All Australian geologists will owe him a debt of gratitude, for 

 his industry and zeal in the cause of our coal floras. 



Record of xew localities of Polynesian Mosses, with 

 descriptions of some hitherto undefined species. 



By William: Mitten, F.L.S. 



[When lately, on my request, the leading British Bryologist, 

 Mr. W. Mitten, was induced to write a list of all known 

 Australian Mosses, he noted also a number of Polynesian 

 species, new either for science or for localities. These valuable 

 manuscripts being placed unreservedly at my disposal, I beg now 

 on his behalf to offer the Polynesian portion of his notes to the 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales. As Port Jackson is that 

 harbour in Australia from which communications with the South 

 Sea Islands most extensively proceed, it will be easier for the 

 Sydney Naturalists than for others, to see these searches for 

 mosses followed up. The large bryologic collections formed by 

 the Pev. Th. Powell in Samoa, and elaborated likewise by Mr. 

 Mitten, lead us to anticipate that great riches of these kinds 

 might also be gathered yet in many others of the island groups 

 of the Pacific Ocean. The several mosses now recorded from 



