THE 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
Von... EVI: 
1. On the Cuarke Cottection of Fossin Prants from New Sovurn 
Wates. - By E. A. Newer Arser, Hsq., B.A., Trinity College, 
Cambridge; University Demonstrator in Paleobotany. (Com- 
municated by Prof. T. McKuyny Hueues, M.A., F.R.S., 
F.G.S. Read November 6th, 1901.) 
[Puare I. | 
Tue earliest scientific descriptions of fossil plants, from the rocks of 
New South Wales, are those by Brongniart of the genera Glossopteris 
and Phyllotheca, published in his ‘ Prodrome’' in 1828. In his 
‘Histoire, ? published in the same year, figures and specific 
descriptions of these, and other genera, are to be found. It was 
not, however, until some years later that the first systematic 
collections of fossil plant-remains from this region were begun 
by the Rev. W. B. Clarke, Count Strzelecki, and by Dana. In 
1845 Morris* published an account of Strzelecki’s collection; 
and two years later McCoy * examined the Clarke Collection, made 
between 1839 and 1844, which he described in a paper in the 
Annals & Magazine of Natural History, in 1847. Dana’s® speci- 
mens were described in 1849. The Clarke Collection, numbering 
nearly 2600 specimens of all kinds, including some 80 fossil plant- 
remains, was, by the great generosity of its owner, presented to the 
Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge, in November 1844.° 
As already stated, the more important palzobotanical specimens 
in this collection were described by McCoy in 1847, twelve being 
regarded as new types. It has been thought, however, that a re- 
examination of this early collection, in the light of the recent 
advancement of our knowledge with regard to the structure and 
1 Brongniart (28)'. The numbers in parentheses after the authors’ names 
indicate the year of publication of the work, to which reference will be found in 
the bibliography at the end of this paper, p. 25. 
2 Brongniart (28). 3 Morris (45). * McOoy (47). 
> Dana (49). § Clarke (78) pp. 118 & 151. 
Q.J.G.8. No. 229. : 
B 
