PREFACE. 



todon and Nototherium not uncommon in the Pliocene Tertiary 

 dejiosits of Victoria. 



The fourth phvte illustrates a peculiar variety of one of the most 

 characteristic of the Miocene Tei-tiary species of Pecien. 



The fifth plate is one of great interest to Victorian geologists, as 

 affording illustrations of the most characteristic forms of fossil 

 animals marking the Middle Devonian age, which I first determined 

 from them as an unmistakable portion of the Palaeozoic formations 

 of Victoria, Those from the limestones of Buchan and Bindi show 

 examples of a fossil coral identical with a species in the European 

 limestones of the same age in the Eifel and Newton Bushel. 

 With this is an European Middle Devonian Spirifer identical with 

 specimens occurring in great abundance in the Eifel and other 

 Continental localities, and which, although very rare in the Devo- 

 nian strata of England, I found many years ago in the Valley of 

 Rocks, Linton, N. Devon. The third species is a new Chonetes 

 closely allied to a common one in the Rhine valley. A fourth 

 form is a new Phragmoceras also closely allied to a common 

 German Devonian one. And the fifth form is perhaps the most 

 interesting of all, being the bony, stellately marked, plates of the 

 great ganoid genus of Fish Asferolepis, so characteristic of the Old 

 Red Sandstone or Devonian Rocks of Russia, where, however, it is 

 not accompanied by the corals and shells of more southern 

 Europe, while, on the other hand, the corals and shells of the same 

 age in England and Germany are not accompanied by it, so that 

 their occurrence together in the Victorian Devonian limestones of 

 Gippsland is very curious. 



The sixth plate illustrates some of the more abundant fossil 

 plants of the Upper Devonian strata at Iguana Creek : one being 

 of the peculiar type of Cj/clopteris, named Palceopteris by Schimper 

 and ArchcEopteris by Dawson, so abundant in the Upper Devonian 

 strata of Ireland and Canada. 



