Sa7id'Stones and their Fois.slls. 2^d 



will be the addition to the geological map of Victoria of the 

 Lower Trias formation, or Biinter Sandstein, or Gres Biggarre, 

 leaving my old impression that the Gangamopteris beds were 

 Upper Trias or Keuper, as corroborated by the first relative 

 evidence. The other fragments seem referable to the Zeuyo- 

 phy]1ite>i, and would indicate in my opinion u sliglitly newer 

 date." 



The next item Avorthy of notice is in 1894, when McCoy adds 

 P til op] ly 111 cm officeri in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 of Victoria, in a very brief note as an appendage to a paper 

 by Messrs. Officer and Balfour entitled, " Further Note on the 

 Glacial Deposits of Bacchus Marsh." The meagreness of this 

 description, its out-of-the-way inclusion in another paper, and 

 the absence of any illustration, will all tend to increase the 

 difficulty of recognition of this species, even if we acce})t the 

 generic location as correct. 



Four years later, 1898, we have a specially interesting record 

 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, by the 

 same author, firstly, in the addition of a new species, Taeniop- 

 teris siveeti, and secondly that it was the closing episode to a 

 great career. Early in the year following the publication of 

 this paper Sir Frederick McCoy died, and no greater testimony 

 to his wonderful vitality and interest in his work up to the last 

 moment could be given than by noting his attitude in this, his 

 last paper. He regarded this occurrence of Taeniopteris as a 

 further confirmation of his belief in the Mesozoic age of the 

 rocks. 



Although we may not accept all his opinions, still we must 

 recognise our indebtedness to him for the information we have 

 on this highly interesting flora. 



The strange way in which credit may be very easily per- 

 verted by the fallacy of reference is well illustrated in con- 

 nection with a remark of Mr. E. A. Newell Arber', in his woik 

 on the Glossopteris Flora, published in 1905. He says: "The 

 first mention of the latter (Gangamopteris) genus was appar- 

 ently that by Selwyn in 1866, who identified it from the 

 Bacchus Marsh Beds." Yet McCoy mentions it at the same 



1 B. M. Cat, Glossopteris Flora, 1905, p. hi. 



