410 EDWARD F, PITTMAN. 
The evidence thus obtained proves beyond doubt that the Moree 
bore, which yields about three million gallons per day of artesian 
water of very good quality, is not in the Lower Cretaceous rocks 
as was previously supposed, but in rocks of the same age as the 
Ipswich beds of Queensland, the coal measures of Victoria, and 
the Clarence River coal measures of New South Wales. 
In subsequently examining the core-box from the Coonamble 
bore, I identified, in a solid piece of ‘reamings,’ a specimen of 
Teniopteris Daintreei, and one of Thinnjeldia odontopteroides, 
Morris, another fossil plant characteristic of the Hawkesbury 
series, which are regarded as homotaxial with the Clarence series. 
The Coonamble bore yields a supply of about one million, eight 
hundred thousand gallons of artesian water per day. 
On the 20th J anuary, 1894, a paragraph appeared in the Daily 
Telegraph, Stating that the Revd. J. M. Curran had furnished a 
report to the Minister for Works to the effect that in his opinion 
the rocks pierced by the Coonamble bore were Triassic and not . 
Cretaceous, Enquiries recently made at the Works Department 
elicited the reply that no such written report had ever been 
received from Mr. Curran, but I understand that our respected 
President, Professor David, questioned Mr. Curran at the time, 
as to his reasons for supposing these rocks to be Triassic, and his 
reply was that although he had no definite paleontological proof 
of the age of the rocks, his opinion was based upon their lithological 
resemblance to those of the Dubbo district with which he was 
familiar, and upon the occurrence of a number of indeterminable 
plant remains, similar to those common in the Dubbo beds. 
Tn 1891, Mr. Robert Etheridge, Junior, identified a specimen 
of Teniopteris Daintreei from the N yngan bore, and during the 
present year, Mr. W. S. Dun recognized another specimen of the 
same fossil plant in some rocks forwarded by Mr. W. L. R. Gipps 
from Terabile Creek, four and a half miles from the Castlereagh 
River. : 
It is clear therefore that a large portion of the area hitherto 
regarded as Lower Cretaceous, is in reality occupied by rocks of 
