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Professor has gone, he deserves I’espcct and honour for the change. 
My only complaint is that he has not gone far cmiujli j though 
after Avhat ho and his colleagues announced in the examination 
above referred to, respecting tlic sole Mesozoic character of our 
Kew South AYales coal, it is refreshing to find him writing in 
these terms of the Greta and Anvil Creek coal seams. “The 
beds from “ 7r.” to “ (referring to his re-arrangement of Mr. 
Keene’s specimens) arc clearly the marine Palaeozoic Carboniferous 
rocks, and ilie coal found with them resembles the coal of the 
southern coalfields of Ireland of the same agel But bo adds 
without compunction or authority : — “ Neitlier this collection, 
nor the sections, nor 'Mv. Keene’s collection in the IMelbourno 
Exhibition, bear out the notion that the Glosssoptcris and Pbyllo- 
tbeca alternate with the marine Palaeozoic shell beds.” Koav bad 
a visit been paid by him to tlie localities of Eix’s Creek and the 
rest, or to Anvil or to .Stony Creek, or to Mount AVingen, such 
an assertion would not have I'cquircd fresh denial from me ; and to 
jump from the AYallsend seam to Kix’s Creek, and Anvil Creek, 
without any examination of the section of the intermediate 
localities, or to deny the existence of Grlossopteris at those and 
other places among the marine beds which are so interpolated, is 
to do away with the whole merit of such a section as the “ notes” 
pretend to represent. 
Tio known uucoTiforniity existing, since no Ikiunn, or Ulora typi.^al of the Woso'/Joic period 
has, I believe, yet been been found in the suicl Xo. 3. 
‘'Tins brings me to the consideration of Mr. Clarkoks present arrangement of the Car- 
boniferous series of New South Wales. 
‘ Wianamatta' betU, with insignificant coal scams, the njiper beds of which 
are the probabie eqinvalents of our Otway, Bellerim', and Waimon beds, in which 
Olossoptoris lifls not yet been found. 
“ llawkcsbviry’ beds, with insignificant coal seams; no (Uossopteris. To 
this series Mr. Clarke refers the (Jrampian sandstones of Victoria, though Mr. 
Selwyn places them with Xo. -i. (Uy Gr.ujipiaii sandstones I mean the beds con- 
stituting the .Sierra.) 
“ r/t/rd— U.'arboniferous bed.s,’ containing the wni'kable coal seam-*, with Glossopteris, 
by far the most abuudaul fossil. In Uiehnvcr portion of tlii.s series Jinir (? five) known 
coal seams are luterpolateil with strata eontiuiiing a Fauna similar in character to 
that found in the t>irbouiferons limeslono of Knrope. 
“ Fourth . — ‘ Lopid.jdcndron beds,’ not associated with coal seams, as far as yet known. 
“ If this arr<angenieut is envroet— and iiiy experiouce as a field geologist is entirely in its 
favour — it is ol great practical value t o us in Victoria in the search of workable coal seams, 
d-c., &c., =5= « in the hope of finding the (no.^sopteri.-* beds. It points unfavourably 
towards the Ticnlopteri.s and Zamit.es-beariug beds, which wo have hitherto regardtal aBonr 
coal-producers, but which as yet have yielded nothing better than the Cape Fatcr.soii 
earns. 
“Four thousand feet also of these saim* beds liavc bean tested by boring in the nellerinc 
District, and liave yielded nolliing approaching a workable smuu. ^ if. ^ 
“ All the facts that wo have to cuido the field geologist in Victoria, in his search for 
Clarke’s Xo. 3 carboniferous beds (containing Iho workable seams of Xow t'outh Wales) are 
these — that they are vei'y low down in tho Carboniferous serb's; that the low’est beds con- 
tain a Fauna nearly allied to tho Lfiwcr Carboniferous of Kuropo ; that (ilossoptvri.'* is asso- 
ciated with all the* coal seams, and is the mo.st common and cbaractcristic fossil of tho 
said Xo. 3. Thus peculiar Fauna or Ploi'ft has not yet been observed in Victoria.” 
(From Feoutan and Auatralkm AccUiuciiiscy, August 20, 18G3, Iso. 100, imblv/hcd at 
Melbourne. J . . , - 
It will be xiiinccessary to point out to any nnpreju'liced reader how ^fr. Paintrec a “Xotes 
cited above, known as Muy must have been to liio “ Ileporters on Coal Field-s.^tt estern 
I’ort,” nearly nine years before, contrast with tludr laiiientatiou iu the je.ar 1872, about 
the “ nnn-comparison” by Victorian siirveyors of the position of the coal beds in the two 
Colonies, “ with all the exactness possible.” 
