They cover an area of 17,000 square miles. The coal seams are 
usually in the lower strata. 
In New South Wales, especially, there occur in the Coal strata 
numerous plant impressions, upon which Professor M‘Coy reported as 
follows : — 
(a) Wianamatta shales and conglomerates, with Bhyllolhcca Hookcri , 
M‘Coy. 
( b ) Sydney Sandstone, in concordant position to the former. M‘Coy 
mentions no fossils.* 
(c) First coal-seam below the Sydney Sandstone, with Glossopteris 
Broioniana, Bgt. ; Bhyllotheca Hookcri , M‘Coy. 
(d-j) Various beds and coal-seams, with Bhyllotheca australis, 
Bgt. ; Bhyllotheca Hookeri, M‘Coy ; Bhyllotheca ramosa , 
M'Coy; Glossopteris Broioniana, Bgt., &c. 
(/c) Grey rock above the Bix scam. This is, in descending order, 
the first of the Palaeozoic beds with marine animal fossils. 
(7) Sandstone and limestone above the Branxton, Greta, Stony Creek, 
and Anvil Creek seams. 
(m) Lowest beds of the coal formation. Sandstone, with Lepido - 
dendron. 
(u) White chert, with Lepidodendron. f 
(33.) 1874-1878. M‘Coy (Prof. F.) Prodromus of the Palaeontology cf Victoria (Decades 
I-V). Hoy. 8 vo. Melbourne , 1874-78. (Government Printer). 
In this work fossil plants from Victoria are described and illustrated, 
but there arc also general remarks referring to the age and correlation of the 
Newcastle beds, New South Wales. 
Since 1S7G I myself published several papers on the Indian Flora, 
partly in the Itecords of the Geological Survey of India, and partly in the 
Paheontologica Indica, where I had, also, ample opportunity to refer to the 
Australian Flora, especially in consequence of the examination of Australian 
fossil plants, which, in 1875, and also subsequently, were sent to me by the 
late Bev. W. B. Clarke and also by Mr. C. S. "Wilkinson, the Government 
Geologist, Sydney. In these papers I endeavoured to show that the Indian 
coal-beds (Damudas) were not analogous to the Australian Newcastle beds, 
* This is the Hawkesbury Sandstone, which, however, contains some fossils. 
t I suppose the beds m and n represent the Lepidodendron beds of Smith’s Greek and Port Stephens, 
