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Above the Newcastle beds there are no more marine Palaeozoic rocks, 
but more recent strata, viz., (in ascending order) the Ilawkesbury beds and 
the Wianamatta beds. They contain certain plant fossils and Ganoid (partly 
lictoroccrcal) fishes. 
Mr. Clarke treats of these latter under “ Mesozoic or Secondary Forma- 
tions,” but at the same time lie calls them “ Supra-Carboniferous” (p. 70 and 
Appendix XVIII) without, however, expressing a distinct view about their 
age, although it appears that lie lays stress on the occurrence of lictoroccrcal 
fishes. 
Mr. Clarke reproduces my views (pp. 58—00 and pp. 75-SI) about the 
Indian Flora and its relations with that in Australia, partly according to my 
published notes in the Records of the Geological Survey of India and partly 
from my letters written to him on this matter. One of the latter communi- 
cations is printed (p. 81), and I think the contents of it even now to be 
fully justified, so that it is reproduced here. I wrote then : — “ Glossopteris 
began to live in Australia during the time when Carboniferous animals lived 
in the sea — in the time of the lower Australian coal-beds. They are, there- 
fore, of Carboniferous age. But Glossopteris continued to live when already 
the lower beds were deposited (including the marine animals), or when the 
marine animals ceased to live — when, therefore, in fact, another epoch of life 
began, which was characterised by the total absence of marine Carboniferous 
animals, and by the preponderance of plants; and I think in this lies the 
difference between your upper and lower coal beds. * * * * 
And for this reason I thought only those upper coal strata in your country 
could be compared with our Talcli ir-Damuda beds, as these do not contain any 
marine fossils at all. * * * * ” 
In the same paragraph Mr. Clarke also treats of the Mesozoic of 
Victoria, without, however, separating the Bacchus Marsh beds from the 
Upper Carbonaceous. 
To the paper there are added twenty Appendices (I-XX), which 
contain various tabular views, lists of fossils, &c. 
(39.) 1876-1877. Koninck (Professor L. Gr. ds) Recherches sur les Fossiles paleozoiques 
de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. 2 vols. 8 co. and 4 to. 1870-77. Bruxelles. 
Prof, dc Koninck described fossils from the Silurian, Devonian, and 
Carboniferous. From the latter, also, several plants are mentioned, viz., 
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