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Geology and Paleontology, with 9 plates of fossils; and offered 
more detailed evidence than had hitherto been given as to the 
existence of a Secondary fauna in W. Australia and in Queéns- 
land. His practical and intimate acquaintance with the English 
Secondary rocks enabled him to refer the greater number of the 
specimens to the horizon of the Lower Oolites ; indeed, he did not 
hesitate to state that the matrix of some of the Upper Lias forms 
was identical with that ferrugineous limestone on the same 
horizon near Bath ; so that he claims to have established for the 
first time the presence in Australia and Queensland of the 
Middle and Upper Lias, and of the Lower and Upper Oolitic fauna. 
Noticing that they did not come from beds in sifu but from 
derived boulders and superficial deposits, he draws the conclusion 
that from their being found in such widely distant localities as 
W. Australia and Queensland, the denudation of the Secondary 
rocks between the deposition of the Paleozoic and Tertiary beds 
must have been enormous. 
It is noticeable that this was a “Postponed Paper” again ; 
probably his views as to the right of comparing European fossils 
with those in such a distant part of the world, and judging the 
age of the strata from their resemblance, was too much in advance 
of that time ; though the President, Mr. Prestwich, reminded the 
objectors of the fact of identical species, and to a great extent a 
similar fauna, being found in our seas at the present day more 
than 180° apart. His paper, too, in the same year (1869) on the 
discovery of plants and insects in a small block of chocolate 
eoloured micaceous laminated Marl, from the Tertiary beds of the 
Rocky River, New South Wales, was at first only given in 
abstract, but follows in full after the former one. 
The result of his many years work amidst the Secondary rocks 
of the district was laid before the Geological Society on March 
20th, 1867, under the title, “On Abnormal conditions of Secondary 
deposits when connected with the Somersetshire and South Wales 
Coal-basins ; and on the age of the Sutton and Southerndown 
series.” 
