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Mines and Mineral Statistics, 
In rocks of tlie same age also a vast deal of mineral wealth of 
other kinds occurs, as ores of copper, iron, lead, antimony, &c. 
In the notes on the Geology of Queensland, by Mr. Daintree, 
(Q.J.G.S., Aug., 1872), the fossils are described and figured by 
Mr. Etheridge; and to that excellent Memoir the reader is 
referred for much valuable information. Twelve species of the 
fossils are described as Devonian. 
It is interesting to find Dr. Hector stating at the beginning of 
1S75, that 2,000 specimens of Lower Devonian or Upper Silurian 
fossils have been obtained from the north-west district of the South 
island of New Zealand (Klnih Amiual Heport of the Oolonial 
Museum, 187-i.) And equally interesting is it to know that New 
Caledonia also holds out hope of contribution to the Middle and 
Lower Paheozoie faunas, as in the Isle Ducos, Leptiena, Spirifera, 
Orthis, Ac., occur with rolled Brachio2mh of the same character 
as those at the “Gulf” on the Turon Eiver in this Colony, 
{Anncdcs des Mines, tome xrr, p. 51, 1867.) Monsieur M. P. 
Eischer is disposed to assign them to the Betonian period 
{Bulletin de la Soc, Geol, de JPrance, 18 Mar., 1867.) 
It may be well to mention that the Old Bed exhibits itself in 
association with the limestone and slaty portions of the formation, 
occupying ranges of considerable extent and prominent character 
in the Western districts, and that a Lepidodeudron of some local 
interest {L. notham) also occurs in three of tlie Colonies. 
It seems as if every individual discovery in the Geology of this 
Colony had a history or literature of its own. 
In June, 1851, Professor M‘Coy wrote to me from Cambridge 
respecting the first Lepidodeudron he had seen from Australia, 
and which I had forwarded by the late Bear- Admiral King to Pro- 
fessor Sedgwick, and stated it to be L. ietra<jomm of the Englieh 
coal fields. 
The late Mr. Salter, in his letter to me of May 9, 1856, said, 
however, that the genus was not Lepidodendron. 
In November, 1863, Sir C. Bunbury wrote to Professor E. 
Jones,- respecting a collection of Australian fossil plants includ- 
ing the above species sent home by me, and now in the Museum 
of the Geological Society, where they w^ere inspected by him, at 
my request, and noticed one (^/iaoue) which he considered to be 
very like L. tetragonum, 
Dui'ing the last few years I have collected, or received, this 
plant from a variety of localities on New South Wales and 
Queensland, and from the latter Colony it was also brought in 
abundance % Mr. Daintree. Mr. Carruthers, who has given its 
description fully in the paper before alluded to (Q.J.G.S., Aug., 
1872) has assigned to it the name of a sj^ecies described by Unger, 
viz., Lepidodendron notlmm. 
