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great interest to be forgotten; and, in the beginning of last 

 year, at the instance of Professor McCoy and Mr. Murray, 

 the Secretary for Mines, Mr. C. W. Langtree, provided funds 

 for a further investigation. 



The Rev. A. W. Cresswell accordingly visited the district. 

 He spent a day or two or there, and searched along the 

 Broken River, near its junction with the Bridge Creek, and 

 some distance up the latter. He found some interesting 

 fossils himself, and left two men under the supervision of 

 Mr. P. Bromfield, the Shire Secretary, with directions to 

 excavate for more*, with the result thus summed up by 

 Professor McCoy : — The Rev. A. Cresswell procured some 

 "scales" allied to those of Glyidtolepis in appearance; and 

 examples of still greater interest of Acanthodian fishes related 

 to known Old Red Sandstones types. He also brought 

 various examples of the Lepidodendron Tiiansfieldense 

 (McCoy), of which lithographic figures have been prepared for 

 the Decades of Paleeontology of Victoria, with all the details 

 necessary for a satisfactory recognition of the species, which 

 is quite distinct from the Lepidodendron australe (McCoy)i 

 of the Avon River, Gippsland. Yet these were, except in 

 tlie case of the Lepidodendron just referred to and an 

 Acanthodian fish and one oi- two others, so fragmentary that 

 determination was both difficult and hazardous. 



Mr. Cresswell was, however, unable to spare time for 

 further work in the field, and Professor McCoy did me the 

 honour to suggest that I should undertake a more thorough 

 examination ot the rocks of that locality. The Secretary of 

 the Mining Department, Mr. Langtree, promised to render 

 every assistance, and to supply a limited sum to employ men 

 to quarry. As 1 feel great interest in the ancient forms of 

 life, and possess a certain amount of ambition to assist in 

 obtaining more complete knowledge of the remains which 

 are at present hidden in the rocks on this side of the globe, 

 I consented to undertake the work. We left Melbourne on 

 the eighteenth of December last, at which date only, the 

 services of Mr. James Tolmie could be secured as guide, and 

 readied Mansfield on the nineteenth. 



The first characteristic purplish red sandstone rock makes 

 its appearance on the roadways, having been used for 

 repairing them, shortly after leaving the highly-inclined 



• Memorandum of Kev. A. W. Cresswell, M. A. 

 + Memorandum of Professor McCoy, C.M.G. 



