Formations of New South Wales. 347 
una ae cate ser multo affine alla stn vittata del? 
Oolite di Scarborough, e nota come presso Volumbilla abbia tro- 
yato Belenniti, Pentacriniti e varie conchiglie che s’ ya ots eo 
alle gepsete proprie dell’ Oolite inferiore, del Liase del Tria: 
p. 148-9). 
oe in this statement are three things to be reconsidered:— 
1. It has not been said by me that the Lepidodendron, &c., 
were in the same beds with Glossopteris (though evidence 
has come out recently to the effect that these plants have 
been found together at Newcastle), but it has been held 
that the Glossopteris Coal beds and the Lepidodendron 
beds are part and parcel of one great formation. 
2. In New South Wales no Cycadites and no Taniopteris 
have been ever found, though they occur in Victoria in 
the beds considered by the geologists there to belong to 
the Wianamatta beds. 
3, Neither in the Victoria beds, nor in the Wianamatta beds, 
has ever been found a Belemnite, a cca ieee: or a 
shell, save a fresh-water Unio in Victoria, and one shell 
in New South Wales from the fish-bearing s shales 
There is, however, a far more important matter to be rectified. 
When I first reported the Ayre of Rasepeery fossils from 
Cretaceous ; and therefore, certainly guided by Prof. M’Coy’s 
determination, I adopted his view of an older period, and even 
considered that some of the fossils indicated a Triassic age 5 
there was certainly a brachiopod which looked older t 
Triassic;) consenting to the possibility that the Wollumbilla 
_ beds might prove really to be of the same age as the Wianamatta 
beds. But I have learned two things since, first, that the 
fishes of pk latter are Paleozoic, and secondly, that the Wollum- 
illa fossils on ean rete and examination in ar w. ither 
dare Rive pe with that of Wollumballa tthotgh otherwise 
widely separate), there will be the in al ae 
| Cretaceous epoch, first reat ty myself: Ae 2m rpc able to 
