1804 
president’s address. 
acc. W.) consist of glacial conglomerates piled on scored and 
grooved surfaces of the Table Mountain Sandstone, shales much 
confused by ice movement, and finally of coal measures containing 
Glossopteris. Above these are the Koonap beds, not yet worked 
out, but assumed to represent the Damudas ; and then the 
Beaufort shales (equivalent to the Panchets, W.), with abundant 
Reptilian and some Amphibian remains, and Glossopteris 
Browniana, Phyllotheca, &c. The Reptiles are described by 
Owen in B. M. C. Fossil Reptilia of S. Africa, and belong to 
the Dicynodonta, Theriodonta, and Dinosauria. {Dicynodon 
is found in the Indian Panchets). The Beaufort beds are 
succeeded by the Stormberg white and red sandstones, and 
subordinate beds of Shale and Coal (representing the Kota 
jNIaleri and Rajmahal, W.). The following ferns have been 
described : — 
Pecoptens ( thimifeldicC). Bgt. (sic). Qy. Thinnfeldia 
odontopteroides ? 
„ StUherlandi. 
Cyclopteris cuneata. 
Tceniopteris Daintreei. 
“ All these are species which occur equally in the uppermost 
plant bearing beds of Australia.” The skull of a Mammal, 
Tritylodon triglyphus, very closely allied to the genus Triy- 
ly pirns from the Rhsetic bone-bed of Wiirtemberg, has also 
been found here. 
Thirdly, in the Uitenhage deposits we have, as in the Cutch- 
Godavari of India, an alternation of Plant and Marine beds. The 
plants are from the European point of view Jurassic, from the 
Indian, Rajmahal. The Mollusca, (including Trigonia, 3 sp.), 
are Neocomian as compared with those of the Cutch-Godavari 
beds, which are referable to the Lower Cretaceous (Tithonian) of 
Europe. 
Dr. Waagen gives the results at which he has thus arrived in a 
table containing also a column of Australian equivalents, which 
