NOTE ON THE PRECISE LOCALITY OF THE TYPE 
SPECIMEN OF LEPIDOVENDRON AUSTRALE, McCOY. 
By Frederick Chapman, A.L.S:, F.R.M.S., Paleontologist to the 
Nationae Museum. 
In the “ Prodromus of the aleontology of Victoria,” Decade 
I., 1874, p. 39, the late Sir Fredk. McCoy recorded the figured 
specimen (Holotype) of Lepidodendron australe as occurring in the 
“red and yellow micaceous carboniferous sandstone of the Avon 
River, Gippsland, 5 miles above Bushy Park. Presented by the late 
Angus McMillan.” This present note is written to define the 
locality more clearly, and to accredit Mr. George Thomas Jones* 
with the discovery of the specimen. 
I am indebted to that gentleman for the following information. 
About the autumn of 1854 Mr. G. T. Jones was assisting Mr. William 
Tennant Dawson in surveying the Avon River District. Whilst 
scrutinizing the sandstone rocks of a spur dividing the Boisdale 
Plain from the Little Plain, immediately opposite the junction of 
the Avon+River and Valencia Creek, Mr. Jones discovered the 
specimen on which McCoy founded his species. 
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* Now Secretary and Engineer, Ballarat Shire. 
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