t. spratt on the coal-bearing deposits near erekli. 533 



Discussion. 



Mr. Etheridge stated that the fossils and rocks were undoubtedly 

 truly of Carboniferous age, and from our ordinary experience would 

 be regarded as rather low down in the series. He noticed the species 

 of plants which occurred among Admiral Spratt's specimens, and 

 dwelt especially on the presence of Stigmaria Jicoides. He also 

 referred to the existence among them of what appeared to be a 

 species of Glossopteris, and said that although this genus of ferns 

 had been regarded as peculiarly Jurassic in Western Europe, it had 

 beeD discovered in what appeared to be true Carboniferous deposits 

 in Queensland by Mr. Daintree, and hence its occurrence in a 

 similar position in this intermediate locality was particularly in- 

 teresting. 



