History of Palceozoic Actinology in Australia. 103 



Wales, of a species allied to, if not identical with, Favosites 

 Gothlandica (Fougt.). 



In the Annals of Natural History for 1847 Professor 

 (then Mr.) M'Coy published his celebrated paper "On the 

 Fauna and Flora of the Rocks associated with the Coal of 

 New South Wales," in which he gave numerous localities 

 for Mr. Lonsdale's species, and in addition described as 

 new, two more — Cladochonus tenuicollis, and Strombodes 

 Australis.'^ 



In the account of one of Ludwig Leichhardt's explorations 

 — Journal of an Overland Expedition, &c. — the Rev. W. 

 B. Clarke described a coral found by Leichhardt in the 

 Burdekin River limestone (Queensland), about lat. 19° 58' 

 11"' S. under the name of Gyathophyllum Leichhardti.'^ 



During the years 1838-42 the United States Government 

 organised the well-known exploring expedition under 

 Captain Wilkes, U.S.N. The scientific results of this 

 voyage were published in a series of magnificent volumes, 

 the description of the recent corals, fossils, and geological 

 notes being, amongst other things, undertaken by Professor 

 Dana. In the Appendix to the volume devoted to geology^ 

 a large series of fossils from the palaeozoic rocks of New 

 South Wales are described, including references to some of 

 the previously-mentioned corals. Lonsdale's species of 

 Stenopora are referred to the genus Ghcetetes (Fischer), and 

 a new species was described as C. gracilis. * 



A paper by the Rev. W. B. Clarke, published in 1848, 

 " On the Genera and Distribution of Plants in the Carbon- 

 iferous System of New South Wales," ^ contains the record 

 of a " corallite' from the Newcastle coalfield, named by 

 Leichhardt Corallites Wiltoni. I here quite failed to find 

 any further reference to this species — in fact, I do not think 

 anything further is known about it. 



The importance of Professor M'Coy's paper on the New 

 South Wales fossils forwarded by the Rev. W. B. Clarke 

 to the late Professor Sedgwick, and which originally 

 appeared in the " Annals" as previously noticed, was evinced 



1 Annals Nat. Hist, 1847, XX., p. 227, pi. 11, figs. 8 and 9. 



2 London, 1847 -, Svo ; p. 212. 



3 U.S. Exploring EwjJcd.; Geology, by J. D. Dana, New York ; 1 vol. 4to, 

 Atlas, 1 vol. folio. 



4 Pp. 711-712 ; Atlas, t. 11. 



^ Quest, Jour, Gevl, Soc, IV,, p. 62. 



