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in various other parts of tliat extensive basin (as proved by borings), 

 and that Mr. Daintree, who was formerly on the Geological Survey 

 of Yictoria, but is now squatting on the Clarke Eiver, in the Upper 

 Kennedy district, has brought to me from the Bowen Eiver Coal- 

 field, fully 900 miles north of Stony Creek, the same species of 

 shells and the same species of plants, occurring in the same order of 

 superposition as at Stony Creek, proving that there is no anomaly 

 in the positions I have assigned to the Glossojpteris, and that it goes 

 down as low as the Upper Carboniferous at least. It will be inter- 

 esting to geologists to know that this is now so thoroughly deter- 

 mined that no doubt can remain in the mind of any honest contro- 

 versialist. 



I append two extracts from letters from Mr. Daintree justifying 

 my statement : — 



Bowen, Feb. 10, 1866. 

 *' In the Bowen Eiver Coal-field your statement as to the 

 Palaeozoic age of the I^^ewcastle beds is, so far as I could judge, 

 entirely jpr oven, since here we have Sjoirifers, &c., similar to those 

 in Eussell's shaft* and the railway-section at Maitland overly- 

 ing the coal-seams, Ghssopteris being the most abundant fossil 

 Pern." 



After having gone to Melbourne and returned to Queensland, he 

 writes as follows : — 



Brisbane, Aprfi 11, 1866. 



" I send you a copy of what Professor M'Coy addressed to me 

 after an examination of the fossils I took him, viz. : — 



" ' Your brown beds No. 2, are identical with the marine beds 

 underlying the Coal of the Hunter f, the Productus hrachythcerus, 

 Stenoporum ovatum, Pachydomus glohosus, Allorisma curvatum, &c., 

 fixing them. The Streptorhynchus is new, but of clearly Carboni- 

 ferous type. I have no doubt of their being Upper Palaeozoic. 



" ^ The plants are Phyllotheca australis, and Glossojpteris Brow- 

 niana, forms related to which in Europe are only found in Mesozoic 

 rocks.' " 



Mr. Daintree adds, " These types are all above the Lower Coal- 

 seams of the Bowen Biver.^' 



The section Mr. Daintree described as clear and unmistakable, 

 presenting beds distinctly lying over each other in regular order, 

 and having below those already described others with Lepidoden- 

 dron, just as, in New South Wales, the marine beds heloiu the Stony- 

 Creek Coal (which, as we have seen, is covered by marine beds, 

 which are again covered at Newcastle by Coal-beds) are succeeded 



* See section by Eev. W. B. Clarke, Trans. E. Soc. Victoria, vol vi., and sec- 

 tions of the Newcastle Basin, by Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Clarke, 

 t /. e. overlying the Stony Creek Coal-seams. — W.B.C. 



