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of our New Soutli Wales si^eoies, cjj., Spirifer Uneatics, Sp. 
Tasmaniensis, Froductn.^ semlreiiciiJafus, F.pimctatiis^ ^c. {Acad, 
des Sciences de Berlin^ 1801.) 
My own collections have received some interesting additions 
from Queensland during the last year, wliich arrived too late to 
form paid of the contribulion to the Daintree collection. 
The lower beds of these rocks, as we have seen, pass downwards 
to strata holding ^^haits of aclniowledged Lower Carboniferous 
age. 
And in the upper portion of the same, though the plants just 
mentioned are missing, occurs a species of a genus which goes 
upwards into the overlying coal beds, and M'hich because of its 
alliances in otlier countries, is held by one or two PalaBOJitologists 
to carry those coal beds up to the hori/von of the Oolites. 
1 have already written so much in denial of tliis determination, 
that, having lately obtaijjcd additiojial data for my opinion,! sliall 
on this occasion content myself with enumefuting the circum- 
stances tiiat justify tliis view. Did this ^lemoir aim at anything 
more tlian a brief and sueeinct statement of observed facts ^ I 
might again go ini o further argument: but it will save space’ to 
mention the facts and invite Ihosc who deny lliem or cavil at 
them, to come across the border, take oti‘ their coloured spectacles, 
and judge for tiieinselves. 
Those who deny the asserte<l age of our workable coal seams 
afFe('t to rely on the assumed age of that most prominent plant— 
Glossopferis Browniana. Tliey say (llossopteris is an Oolitic 
genus. _ “ Exact! j{ as in the Enfisli beds the Glossojdeyns is associ- 
ated with Tteniopteris'? i.e., in the assumed Oolitic scries. To this 
we may rejjly that Glossojderis BrownianeG which is ''the 
G]ossoj}teris” alluded to in tlm above extract from the “ Deport 
of the three Commissioners on the Western Port Coal-fields,” 
(p. 8) is a plant anJowwn in Europe and America, and 
only known in India, Houth Africa, and Australia, and that TAmi- 
opteris, which is said to l)e associated witli it in English beds, 
according to Hchimper, the most recent expounder of fossil 
botany, is a genus whicdi lias only five species, all of which are 
Permian i.e., of Palmozoic ago or of Upper Carboniferous. Even 
if one Tienioptcris should be found in the same beds with 
Glossopferis, that fact would not invalidate, but would rather 
strengthen my argument, since the former is Pak'ozoic, and the 
latter occurs in the coal seams below the beds which are tilled 
Avitli Lower Carhoniferous marine fossils ; it is clear that those beds 
and tlie plant they hold mu.^t certainly be Palieozoic, whatever 
becomes ot an^ otlier ])art in the succession of the scries or 
group to whicli they belong. It was attempted to bo shown that 
there exists an inversion of beds at Stony Creek, where five 
seams of coal holding Glossopteris under i43 feet’ of acknow- 
