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tlio back, for the overlapping point of the next one to lie in. Do these three different 
sets of scales indicate different fishes of the same family ? _ _ 
“ One thing the specimens will prove. They must have been in most incredi 
numbers, like a herring shoal, in length, breadth, and thickness. Outcrops of the. 
known bed are found nine miles apart. The width has not yet been ascertained. 
“ My instructions were to look out for and collect fish- remains. Unfortunate y 
you cannot bag a spill-bank, nor can a railway train carry it away . It will be a long 
day hence before all the fish-remains of the Drummond Kange are in museums, 
brought away eight bushels. 
“ I did not see any of the crystalline rocks in situ mentioned by Mr. Musson, 
although there are plenty of water-worn crystalline boulders, in the alluvium o 
the Bogantungan Creek banks. I prefer to believe these are from some dyke in 
the upper ranges, for on going two miles lower down the creek, at a much 
level, the indurated stratified ferruginous lower sandstone bed still rests on stratitie 
shale’s. It was here I found the largest Catamite in situ, and they are found m 
all the sandstone beds up to the summit, showing a long period of growing some- 
where, and then being carried to the point of deposition in the sandstone-forming 
'beds. 1 1 f oil 
“ There is a thin band of limy marl runs along for miles, near the bottom ot a 
the cuttings. There are numerous hand-size crystallised septaria concretions, of w ic i 
I secured specimens. At the 237-mile the sandstones are splendid slabs, four to fave 
feet square, enough to pave a city — hard and indurated, recalling memories o 
Arbroath slabs (Lyell’s Elements, p. 403). ’ , 
These fish-remains form an additional and strong link connecting the Drummona 
and Star Beds. Mr. Smith’s fossils have not yet been examined. ^ ^ 
My Colleague’s revised List of Dossils from the Drummond Eange is as follows 
Calamites mrians, Germar. 
Asterocalamites scrohriculatus, Schloth. 
Aneimites austrina, Eth. fil. 
Lepidodendron australe, McCoy. 
„ veltheimianum, Sternb. 
„ sp. ind., PI. 6, figs. 1, 4. 
Cyclostigma australe, Eeist. ? 
Sligmaria, sp. ind., Ten. Woods. 
* Cordaites australis, McCoy ? 
Palmoniscid Eish Remains. _ 
It will be seen that, up to the present time, the Drummond Beds have yielded 
longer list of plants than the Star, while on the other hand the Star Beds have 
considerable number of marine organisms which are not represented, so far as 'ff® 
know, in the Drummond Eange, with the exception of Palasoniscid fish, which are 
common to both. , , 
At Elgin Downs, sixty-five miles cast of Clermont, Mr. Eoger.s-IIarrlson obtaine 
Lepidodendron, Calamites (?), and what was “ probably the fruit of a conifer.” * There 
is no information available with regard to the strata from which these plant-remain^ 
came, but it is not improbable that they are the equivalents of the Star or Drum' 
mond Beds. . . , pv 
Grouping the whole of the above localities together, including the Star prope^ 
Keelbottom, Harvest Home, Mount Wyatt, Caiioona., Broken Eivor, and the Drumro^ 
Kand®' 
‘Report on the Geology, &c., of the Country in the Vicinity of Clermont. 
Brisbane : by Authority : 1886, jj. 3. 
By W. H. 
