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He had had the locality well searched again this season, and had 
added much to the collection, and he had submitted all to the ex- 
amination of his friend Professor Huxley ; and was gratified lately 
by hearing from him that the collection did contain true Dicynodont 
as well as Labyrinthodont reptilian remains. 
Unfortunately however, even this discovery did not fix very 
exactly the true level of these beds, for the exact position of these 
South African strata was not fixed, but all would agree in thinking 
them either Triassie or Permian. And as a necessary consequence, 
the Damuda Series, which is below these, must be as old, if not older. 
This important discovery gave an additional value to all such 
comparisons of Indian strata with those known to occur in other 
countries ; and it was in this point of view that the present small 
collection of specimens from Australia presented several points of 
great interest. 
That plants not only generically but specifically identical with 
those found in the Indian Damuda rocks were found also in the 
Sydney sandstones had long been known. These plants had been 
described by Morris and McCoy. The latter had on the strength 
of the evidence of these plants alone expressed his conviction that 
the group of beds to which they belonged was altogether and 
widely separated from that below, in which occurred numerous 
remains of Mollusca, corals, &c., which were acknowledged to re- 
present a lower carboniferous era. The plant beds above were con- 
sidered Oolitic. Those, however, who examined the rocks in situ did 
not support this conclusion, and did not recognise any break in the 
regular sequence of the two series. Certainly nothing of this kind 
was so markedly traceable as to lead to the idea that the interval 
which had elapsed was representative of the immense lapse of time 
between the lower carboniferous and the lower oolitic epochs of 
Europe. 
The positive identity of some of the fossil plants with those 
found in India, was as he had said long known, and he was even aware 
of the striking resemblance in general lithological character of some 
of the finer sandstones and shaly beds in which these plants occur- 
red in both countries. But he was not aware of the very marked 
and curiously persistent agreement in general aspect between the 
rocks of the two countries. 
