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My Colleague’s testimony 07 i this subject is of tlic higliest value. He says in con- 
nection with a Bore (No. 1) put down on Pelican Creek through the Middle or Marine 
Series — ** The most interesting feature of this bore, is the presence, at the base of the 
Marine Series, of a considerable thickness of strata, containing Glossopteris, and 
undoubtedly on a lower horizon than the sandstone overlying the Garrick seam, which 
contain marine fossils.” * * * § This would appear to entirely corroborate the previously 
expressed opinion of the late Mr. Daintree on the occurrence of Glossopteris in tha 
Bowen Marino Series.f 
In our illustrations we have given more than one variety of this fern. In 
PL IG, figs. 6 and 8, are two very finely reticulated leaves resembling a figure by 
Eeistmantel + and another by Morris.§ ' In PI. 17, fig. 9, is a somewhat coarser 
form, but fig. 10 of the same plate seems to represent the true variety intended 
by Brongniart, under the name of australasica || w'ith a coarser and more open 
reticulation. 
Loc. and Horizon. MacArthur Creek, below MacArthur Coal-Seam ; Cockatoo 
Creek, three and a-quarter, eleven, and twelve miles up, Bowen River Coal Eiel 
(Jf. L. Jnch)-, Walker’s Creek, near Nebo {B. L. Jack) - Stewart’s Creek, near 
Towmsville (i?. L. Jack) ; Dinner Creek, Stanwell {The late James Smith) ; Dawson 
River {II. Mackay, Colin. De Vis)— Upper or Freshwater Series (Upper Coal 
Measures of New South Wales). . 
G. Browniana ha.s been recognised by Mr. Robt. Kidston in later Collections 
of Mr. Jack’s from Dave Creek, Little River, Cooktown ; from a parting in a coab 
seam at the Little River, Cooktown; from impure coal, south of the “ forty -fi^e 
acre seam ; ” from “ Built-up sidling” on old road from Daddy’s to Deep Creek, Coo - 
town. Mr. Kidston has also determined a Glossopteris from the right bank of 
the Little River, half-a-mile below' Fairlight Station, Cooktown, and also from 
Baird’s Mine, Oakey Creek, on which he remarks— “ The specimens are too imperfect 
for specific determination, but probably most of them are referable to Glossopteris 
Browniana.'’’ 
Glossopteris linearis, McOoy, PI. 18, fig. 14. 
Olonsopteris linearis, McCoy, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1847, xx., p. l.lL t. 9,_t. 5 and 5a. „ 
,, Feiatmantel, Palaeontograpliica, 1878, Siipp. Bd. iii.. Lief. 3, Heft 3, p. Jl, t. o, 
and 2, t. 11, f. 3 and 4, t. 13, f. 4. 
f. 1 
Ols. This species has been identified by Mr. Kidston amongst my Colleague’s 
gatherings from the Oakey Creek Coal Field. In New' South Wales it occurs in t 
Newcastle Coal Field, at Woollongong, and other places. In the Bowen River District, 
G. linearis is found associated with Phyllotheca and Sfrophalosia Glarkei, and is furt er 
confirmatory evidence of the occurrence of this interesting genus in company wn 
Palteozoic Mollusca. In PI. IG, fig. 4, the nouration would appear to spring from t ® 
midrib at too near a right angle to fully correspond with the recognised figures of t i 
species. r M • 
Loc. and Horizon. Cockatoo Creek, Bowen River Coal Field {B. L. JacK) > 
Baird’s Mine, Oakey Creek Coal Field, Cooktown {B. L. Jack) — Upper or Fresi 
water Series of the Bowen River Coal Field. 
* Handbook Geol. Queensland, 1880, p. 44. 
t Quart. .Jonrn. Geol. Soc., 1872, xxviii., p. 28G. 
% Palaeontograpliioa, loo. eit., t. 10, f. 5. 
§ Strzelecki, loc. eit, t. 6, f. 1. 
11 Brongniart, loc. cit, t. 62, f. 1. 
