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Mr. Schlehan writes (Oberlaibach, 8th of September 1877):—“As you perhaps re¬ 
collect, I had the management of the opening of coal-mines in that region from October 
1812 up to the end of 1843, and had therefore the opportunity of collecting fossils.” 
These fossils, however, arrived in Europe to a great extent very damaged, so that only 
some of them were of any use. Mr. Schlehan writes further:—“The determination of 
the Petrefacta was made in Asia with assistance of Bronn’s 1 Le tinea geognostica ’ and 
Goppert's ‘ Systema filicum fossilium,’ the only two works at my disposal there. The 
paper on Amasry and Tyrla-Asy was ready for publication already in 1844, but it was 
only published later in the German Geological Society through tho aid of the long since 
deceased, and so deservedly lamented, Herr Leopold von Bueh. If you now will take 
into consideration how many of the Petrefacta in 1842 had different names from at present, 
and how Paleontology has developed since the date when I went to Asia, it is quite 
possible that what I mentioned as Glossopteris has at present quite a different name.” 
Subsequently there are some notes by Mr. F. Fotterle on these coal-bearing rocks on the 
northern coast of Asia Minor,* where these rocks between Ere gli and Amasry are classed as 
Permian, the following fossils having been asserted to occur: Citlam. gigas; Pecopt. 
Geinitzi; Odon top ter is obtusiloba, these being Permian species. No Glossopteris is 
mentioned. This classification of Mr. Fotterle may indeed, on account of the fossils 
mentioned, be considered as a correct one; and it is quite possible that, besides carboniferous, 
Permian is also developed. 
But in his great work, Asie Mineure, 1867, Yol. I, Geologie, Mr. P. de Tckihateheff 
speaks of these deposits again as carboniferous. The fossils, which he was fortunate to secure 
from between Eregli and Amasry, were submitted to the competent judgment of M. Adolphe 
Brongniart; and Mr. Tckihateheff says, p. 709 : “e’est un document important qui, pour la 
premiere fois, constate d'une manihre vigoreuse Page des depots liouillers situes entre Eregli et 
Amasry.” 
Mr. Adolphe Brongniart determined the following:— 
Sphenopteris ; Lepidodendron can-datum , Stbg. ; Lepidodendron, near to Pep. elegans; 
Sigillaria Candollei, Bgt.; Sig. Schlothcimi, Bgt.; Syringodendron paehyderma, Bgt.; 
Stir/maria ficoides, Bgt.; lepidophloios; Catamites Suekowi, Bgt.; Calam. dubius; 
Sphenophyllum , identical with the European species. 
Adolphe Brongniart stated that this flora agrees most closely with that of the Rhine 
basin; but no Glossopteris occurred with these plants, which would have certainly been 
recognised by Brongniart, the original describer of the genus. 
Quite recently, however, I observed in the Geological Magazine for July 1877, that a 
paper was read before the Geological Society by Mr. Spratt, entitled: “ Remarks on coal¬ 
bearing deposits near Erekli, the ancient Heraelea,”t where, amongst plants of undoubted 
carboniferous type, as Lepidodendron, Lepidostrobus, Catamites, Sphenopteris, Peeop- 
teris, Sigillaria-, Stir/maria and Sphenophyllum, a Glossopteris is mentioned; hut again as 
Glossopteris (?). We shall perhaps learn a little more about the impressions mentioned as 
Glossopteris (?) when this paper is fully published. We may notice, however, that the 
occurrence of Glossopteris in the Jabalpur group is not the highest extension at present 
known of the genus. In their Monograph of the tertiary flora of Novale,J Messrs. Visiani 
* Jahrbuck k. k. Geol. Heiehsanstalt, ix, p. 85. 
t More generally known as Eregli. 
$ Mem, d. Acad, di Torino, IId Ser,., vol. xvii. 
