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the most eliaracteristie common types, drawn u]) by Professor 
M‘Coy, which, noder the head of Devonian, iuclndes the follow- 
ing : I^avo^-itra (two species), Sjnrifera Icevicostata^ Oi'cmmijaia 
(n. sp.), Orihonofa (u. s.), Asterolqns (plates allied to). In 
1817 the same skilful Pnheontologist noticed some striking 
resemblances to Devonian fossils in a few of the laj’ge collection 
I sent in to the Woodwardinn Museum at Cambridge; and 
Professor de Ivoninck, also iii 1817 {Beclierches mr aniinmicc 
fossllrs) records 8p. MurcMsoniamis, a Devonian fossil from Tas- 
mania. 
In order to test the existence of a wide-spread Devonian 
series in jN’ew South "Whales, I requested (as stated elsewhere) 
my friend Professor de Ivoninck, to undertake the examination 
of a collection of 1,000 Palaiozuic fossils, conqn’iBing the Upper, 
Middle, and Lower Palaeozoic formations as they exist here, and 
he has just favoured me with his account of the Devonian forms, 
concluding it as follows : — 
“Of 81 species observed, tlicro arc but five belonging to the ITppei* 
DcToihau, all the rest are of loAver beds. Of tlieso 81, thirty are new to 
science, and are Australian ; but s^ave four, all hare their types in Europe 
and America, and liaveihe same character and position as those.” 
Amongst these the Professor includes the fossils I referred to 
in the last edition of this Memoir (p. 10) , from Yass, Mount 
Lamhie, and on the Turon and Moruya Divers, and which are 
in part, identical with the Mount "Myatt shells in Queensland. 
These latter are mostly Brachiopods, and I have collected tliem 
during my diiferent journeys of several years from the western 
boundaty of tlic Carboniferous formation (underlying it in 
situ), and occasionally from a scattered over-lying drift, ranging 
for nearly 200 miles of direct distance (included between 30^^ 
soutli on the Moruya, to nearly 32^ south.) The principal of 
these particular Brachiopods, are : — lihynconeUa pleurodori, H. 
piujnus, Spirifer disjunct us, S. Yassensis ; Orthidcc, Prodiictce, ^c. 
They occur in situ between the slaty rocks of Solala and the 
overlying Carboniferous beds on the Turon ; south of Moruya 
DUer ; near Mullamuddy ou tlio Cudgegong Diver ; at Cudge- 
gong Creek ; in tlie deep defiles of the tipper Colo Diver ; and 
in other places. Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, with whom I visited the 
locality a month or two ago, found them under interesting cir- 
cumstances occurring in a great svnclinal curve, from nearly the 
summits of IMount Lamhie and Slount AYalker (with consider- 
able dips), and explaining the sources from which the loose 
pebbles collected by me at Bowenfells some years since, svere 
probably derived. Prom the occurrence of different fossils in the 
pebbles, it is certain that many strata of the Devonian forma-, 
tion must have been broken up, and it seems that similar beds 
have undergone tlie same process in other countries, for I well 
