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Professor has gone, lie deserves respect and honour for the change. 
My only complaint is that he has not gone Jar enough ; though 
after what he and his colleagues announced in the examination 
above referred to, respecting the solo Mesozoic character of our 
New South Wales coal, it is refreshing to find him writing in 
these terms of the Greta and Anvil Creek coal seams. “ The 
beds from “ to “ (referring to his re-arrangement of Mr. 
Keene’s specimens) arc clearly the marine Palaeozoic Carboniferous 
rocks, and the coal found with them resembles the coal of the 
southern coal fields of Ireland of. the same age.” But lie adds 
without compunction or authority:—“ Neither this collection, 
nor the sections, nor Mr. Keene’s collection in the Melbourne 
Exhibition, bear out the notion that the Glosssoptcris and Phyllo- 
theca alternate with the marine Palaeozoic shell beds.” Now had 
a visit been paid by him to the localities of Kix’s Creek and the 
rest, or to Anvil or to Stony Creek, or to Mount Wingcn, such 
an assertion would not have required fresh denial from me ; and to 
jump from the Wallsend seam to Kix’s Creek, and Anvil Creek, 
without any examination of the section of the intermediate 
localities, or to deny the existence of Glossopteris 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. 
no known unconformity existing, since no Fauna or Flora typical of tbe Mesozoic period 
has, I believe, yet boon been found in the paid No. 3. , 
“This brings me to the consideration of Mr. Clarke’s present arrangement of tbe Car¬ 
boniferous series of New South Wales. 
“ First. — ‘ Wianamatta* * beds, with insignificant coal scams, tho upper beds of whieh 
arc the probable equivalents of our Otway, Bellcri no, and Wan non bed*, in which 
Glossopteris has not yet been found. 
u Second. — ‘ Hsiwkcabary’ beds, with insignificant coal Foams; no Glossopteris. To 
this series Mr. Clarke refers the Grampian sandstones of Victoria, though Mr. 
Selwyn places them with Ko.4. (By Grampian sandstones I mean the beds con¬ 
stituting the Sierra.) 
“ Third.—' Carboniferous beds.’ containing the workable coal scams, with Glossopteris, 
by far the most abundant fossil In the lower portion of this series four (? five) known 
coal * earns are interpolated with strata containing a Fauna similar In character to 
that found in t lie Carnonifferous* limestone of Europe. 
*• Fourth . —* Lepidodendroti beds,* not associated with coal seams, as far as yet known. 
“ If this arrangement is correct — anti my experience as a field geologist Is entirely in Its 
favour — it is of great practical value to us in Victoria in the search of workable coal seams, 
&c., Ac., * * in the hope of finding the Glossopteris boiK It. points unfavourably 
towards the Tienioptcris and ZamitcMmaring beds, w hich we have hitherto regarded as our 
coal-producers, but which as yet have yielded nothing better than the Cape Paterson 
•seams. 
“ Four thousand foot also of these same beds have l>e*n tested by boring in tho Bollcrine 
District, and have yielded nothing approaching a workable seam. 
* ' « * * * * * * * * 
“ All the facts that we have to guide the field geologist in Victoria, in his search for 
Clarke's >'o. 3 carboniferous beds (containing tbe workable seams of New South Wales) are 
these—that they are very low down in the Carboniferous serif*; that tho lowest hods con¬ 
tain a Fauna nearly allied to the Lower Carboniferous of Europe ; that Glossopteris Is asso¬ 
ciated with all the coal scams, and is the most common aud characteristic fossil of tho 
•said No. 3. This peculiar Fauna or Flora has not yet been observed in Victoria.” 
(From Yeoman and Australian Acclimutiscr, August 29, 1S63, No. 100, published at 
Melbourne* J 
It will be unnecessary to point out to any unprejudiced reader how Mr. Dain tree's '‘Notes” 
cited above, known as they must have been to tho “ Reporters on Coal Fields, Western 
Fort,” nearly nine years before, contrast with their lamentation in the year 1872, about 
the‘‘non-comparison” by Victorian surveyors of the position of the coal beds in the two 
•Colonies, •* «ltn all the ex&ctnes* possible.” 
