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The classification of the plant and Coal beds in this table is given as 
follows : — 
6 
N! 
O 
m 
o 
v— I 
in 
O 
O 
O 
U 
r Newer intrusive diabase — Variegated sand- 
stones, shales, and coal seams of the 
Upper Coal Measures at Longford, Bose- 
vears, Hadspen, Ben Lomond, Bin gal, 
Tower Hill, Mt. Nicholas, Oatlands, 
Spring Hill, Jerusalem, &c., &c. 
f Upper Marine Beds— Mersey Biver, 
Porter’s Hill. 
j Tasmanite Beds — Mersey Biver. 
PLowcr Coal Measures — Mersey Biver. 
Marine Beds , — Mudstones, 
CD 
P 
o [ Lower 
o j Limestones, Conglomerates, &c 
L 
Plants — Phyllotheca, TPr- 
tebraria, * Splienop ter is, 
P achyp ter is, Th innfeldia , 
Cyclopteris, Pecopteris , 
Alethopteris, Tceniopteris, 
Sagenopteris, 8fc. 
Marine animals — and plants 
as Glossopteris, Ganga- 
mopteris,N6ggerathiopsis, 
Scliizoneuraf Spe. 
(11.) 1885. Johnston (R. M.) General Observations regarding the Classification of the Upper 
Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Rocks of Tasmania, together with a full Description of all the 
known Tasmanian Coal-plants, including a considerable number of New Species. Proa. 
Poy. Soc. Tasmania, 1885, pp. 343-3S7. 
This is the most elaborate paper on Tasmanian fossils I at present 
know of. Mr. Johnston speaks at first of the stratigraphical relations, as 
far as these are known, and he distinguishes two divisions. 
Carboniferous System (Upper Palaeozoic). — Here he says : — “Although 
in Europe the upper limits of the Carboniferous system can, with some 
degree of satisfaction, be separated from the lower limits of the succeeding 
system, known as the Permian or Dyas, which, according to artificial classifi- 
cation, is deemed to close the Palaeozoic age, it is not as yet always possible in 
other countries, especially in Australasia, to find special stratigraphic or organic 
characters, whereby the divisions between the two periods can even bo most 
distantly approximated. The two systems, for the purposes of this paper, 
are therefore grouped as one, under the term Carboniferous system." 
(12.) 8884-1887. Feistmantel (Dr. 0.) Fossils from Tasmania. Sent bv Mr. T. Stephens. 
As already mentioned (under No. 7), Mr. T. Stephens was so kind as 
to forward to me a small collection of fossil plants from Tasmania, which 
reached me early in 1884. As I was too much occupied with other work I 
* In liis later work Mr. Johnston does not quote it with certainty from Tasmania, 
f Also this plant is not mentioned again. 
