BY THE REV. J. E. TENISON-WOODS, F.G.S., F.L.S. 45 



In reply Mr. Clarke refers to Mr. Selwyn's opinion, that true 

 Carboniferous or Devonian plants occurred in Eastern Victoria 

 and Tasmania immediately underlying the coal-bearing beds and 

 conformable to them. He reiterates that such fossils as he 

 specified had been found in New South Wales, Queensland and 

 Victoria, and gives the localities. He repeats that they are in 

 beds which are conformable to the coal measures — an error which 

 will be subsequently referred to. He also states that the 

 Carboniferous marine fauna of New South Wales including such 

 forms as Pachydomus, Spirifer, Orthoceratite, is intercalated with 

 beds containing Glossopteris, Vertebraria and Phyllotheca — a state- 

 ment which all subsequent observation has confirmed in New 

 South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania. Tmriopteris daintreei 

 of M'Coy, was not described until many years after, but 

 references are made to it and the associated plant remains in the 

 Inter-Colonial Exhibition Essays of Prof. M'Coy* and in a note on 

 the same subject in the Annals Mag. of Nat. Hist, for 1862. In 

 1865 some mention is made of plant remains by Mr. C. S. Wilkin- 

 son, in his Geological Report of the Cape Otway district.! 



A further contribution to the knowledge of the subject was 

 made by Mr. W. Keene. Inspector of Coal Mines for New South 

 Wales, in a paper on the Coal Measures of that colony, read 

 before the Geological Society of London. J In the following 

 year Mr Selwyn, the Government Geologist of Victoria, pub- 

 lished an Essay on the Geology and Physical Geography of the 

 Colony of Victoria, in which there were also references to the 

 plant remains. § At page 20 he says, "I am inclined to believe 

 that the Victorian ' carbonaceous' series is newer than and above 

 the Sydney sandstone."|| It may, perhaps, represent what Mr. 

 Keene, in his paper on the Coal Measures of New South Wales 



* On the Ancient and Recent Nat. Hist of Victoria, by Prof. M Coy. 

 Melbourne, 1861. 



t Geological Survey of Victoria. Melbourne, 1865. 



X Quart Journ. Vol. xxi. May, 1865. 



§ Melbourne : Inter- Colonial Exhibition Essays, 1866. Small 8vo. 



|| By this term Mr, Selwyn probably indicated the Hawkesbury sand- 

 stone, which he supposed to be the same as the coal-bearing strata. It is, 

 however, distinct, often unconformable and, as I believe, an eolian deposit. 



