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the various arguments. The first edition was published in 1867, 

 as an essay in the Catalogue of the Natural and Industrial 

 Products of New South Wales, forwarded to the Paris Exhibition 

 of 1867.* 



But probably the most important advance in the knowledge 

 of Australian Coal Plants was that made by the publication of 

 Daintree's Essay on the Geology of Queensland.! In this Mr. 

 Daintree points out the distinction which must be made between 

 coal plant beds containing Glossopteris and others with Tceniopteris, 

 The former he stated is in Australia, paleozoic and the latter 

 mesozoic, and that the two kinds of fossils are never mingled in the 

 same beds. The selection of Tceniopteris is unfortunate because it 

 is not common and probably included distinct genera according to 

 the classification then adopted. Thinnfeldia is a much better 

 typical fossil of the mesozic beds, and it is never found associated 

 with Glossopteris. It is very common and prevails everywhere in 

 Oolitic plant beds. In an appendix to the paper Mr. Carruthers 

 figured and described some Devonian, Carboniferous and Oolitic 

 plants. He did not however, agree with Mr. Daintree in 

 separating the coal formations of Australia into epochs represented 

 by Glossopteris and Tceniopteris, but thought they might belong to 

 one great period not earlier than the Permian. But Mr. Daintree 

 pointed out that in West Maitland, New South Wales, Glossopteris 

 was found in beds distinctly underlying some containing Spirifer 

 and other forms which were certainly Carboniferous. This 

 observation has since as already stated been abundantly confirmed, 

 but it was lost sight of at the time. To Mr. Daintree's 

 investigations must be assigned the credit of co-relating the 

 Jerusalem (Tasmania) beds, with those of Ipswich in Queensland, 

 in which no Glossopteris is found or the associated marine Car- 

 boniferous fauna. 



* A second edition was prepared for the Report of the International 

 Exhibition at Sydney in 1870, and on the Industrial Progress of New South 

 Wales for the same year. A third edition was printed for the Philadelphia 

 Exhibition in 1875, and a fourth and last edition for the year 1878, when 

 the veteran geologist was in his 80th year. 



+ Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, Lond. vol. 28, 1872, pp. 271, 356. 



