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tion to the coal-beds, contain one plant often of the size, shape, 

 and reticulated neuration of the Glossopteris Broivniana, but 

 without the midrib. For this I have proposed the name Gan- 

 (jamopteris; and of this generic form a species, G. angustifolius 

 (M'Coy), occurs in New-South-Wales coal-plant beds along with 

 the Glossopteris Browniana. 



In all the marine Australian Mesozoic fossiliferous beds which 

 I have seen, the genus Trigonia is absent. 



TRIASSIC AND PERMIAN PERIODS. 



I was able to suggest the existence of Trias deposits in Aus- 

 tralia from the muschelkalk genus Myaphoria, which I recog- 

 nized in some fossils from Wollumbilla sent by Mr. Clarke ; 

 and the Permian I suggested to exist at Mantuan Downs, also 

 in New South Wales, from the Produdce and Aulesteges of that 

 period submitted to me in the same collection. 



CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD. 



The sandstones of the Avon in Gippsland are the only traces 

 of this foraiation that I can recognize in Victoria ; and the only 

 fossil I have seen from it is the Lepidodendron referred to above, 

 identical with that recognized by me many years ago from New 

 South Wales, and which I have lately seen also from Queens- 

 land. 



DEVONIAN PERIOD. 



It is with great pleasure I announce the fact of my having 

 been able satisfactorily to determine the existence of this forma- 

 tion also in Australia, the limestone of Buchan in Gippsland 

 containing characteristic corals, Placoderniatous fish, and abun- 

 dance of the Spirifera Icevicostata, perfectly identical with speci- 

 mens from the European Devonian Limestones of the Eifel. 



UPPER SILURIAN PERIOD. 



I have been able to recognize the Mayhill Sandstones and the 

 Wenlock rocks with certainty in many localities in Victoria. 

 At Broadhurst Creek, for instance, the beds are filled with 

 numbers of the Phacops (Odontochila) longicaudatus, exactly as 

 the corresponding English beds of Cheney Longville are in Shrop- 

 shire ; and here, as in every part of the northern hemisphere, 

 the Spirifera reticulata is the commonest Braehiopod; and many 

 others identical with species of England, Bohemia, and North 

 America occur with it. 



The Ludlow rocks are indicated by the Orthoceras bullatuin 

 and a series of starfish closely representing those of the English 

 Ludlow beds, together with a beautiful new Homalonotus {H. 



