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Newcastle Coal Measures in New South Wales, which is underlaid by marine 
strata at Stony Creek, on the Hunter, and at Wollongong by a remarkable 
group of fossils. 
“ It is remarkable that no equivalent beds to the latter have yet been 
discovered in the New Zealand sections, there being a great break between 
the Glossopteris beds and the next formation.” 
This next formation is the Maitai Series and the Te Anau Series, which 
according to Dr. Hector, have in Australia their undoubted equivalent in the 
Port Stephens beds, and in the calcareous diorites of Gympie, and probably 
in the limestones associated with greenstones south of Hobart. 
Above the Kailiiku Series Dr. Hector places in the text, p. 75, the 
(a) Otapiri, {b) Wairoa, and (c) tlieOreti Series, but under the heading Trias. 
The Otapiri Series is considered of the age of the Hallstadt beds of Europe. 
The Wairoa Series contains Monotis salinciria, var. richmondiana, Zittel ; 
llalobia Lommelli , Wissm., &c. ; but also plants — Glossopteris, Zamites , 
Hhacophjfllum, &c. 
The Orcti beds are said to include a remarkable conglomerate of 
enormous masses of crystalline rocks in a hard cementing matrix, and as the 
probable equivalents of this formation in Australia arc placed the Wianamatta 
Shales and Hawkesbury Sandstone of New South Wales. Ey Capt. Hutton 
the whole series is considered Triassie, into which also the Kailiiku Series is 
included. 
II.— INDIA. 
In India there is especially the so-called Gondwana System, which has 
to he correlated with the coal and plant-bearing system in Australia. 
Eor a long time the correlation of the Indian and Australian coal beds 
has been extensively discussed, but only lately it has been placed on a some- 
what more sound footing. 
I have only lately dealt with the subject tolerably in detail in a paper 
published this year in Prague,* from which I shall extract the following : — 
“ The coal and plant-bearing beds are chiefly deposited within the limits 
of the peninsula, only a small patch is deposited at the foot of the Himalaya 
* Uber die pflarizen und Kohlenfiihrenden Scbielitcn in Indien (beziehungensw. Asien), Afrika, und 
Australien, und darin vorkommende glaciale Ersclieinungen. Sitzungsb. d. Konigl. bolim. Gesellseli. Wissin- 
achaften, 1S87. 
