New South Wales. 
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of our ISTcw South Wales species, e.g., Spirifer lineatus , Sp. 
Tasmanicnsis, Bro ductus semircficulatus^ ]?. punctcitus, dfc. ( A.ccid. 
dcs Sciences de Berlin , 1861.) . 
My own collections have received some interesting additions 
from* Queensland during, the last year, which arrived too late to 
form part of the contribution to the Daintree collection. 
The lower beds of these rocks, as we have seen, pass downwards 
to strata holding plants of acknowledged Lower Carboniferous 
age. 
And in the upper portion of the same, though the plants just 
mentioned are missing, occurs a species of a genus which goes 
upwards into the overlying coal beds, and which because of its 
alliances in other countries, is held by one or two Palaeontologists 
to carry those coal beds up to the horizon of the Oolites. . 
I have already written so much in denial of this determination, 
that, having lately obtained additional data for my opinion, I shall 
on this occasion content myself with enumerating the circum¬ 
stances that justify this view. Did this Memoir aim at anything 
more than a brief and succinct statement of observed facts , I 
might again go into further argument; but it will save space to 
mention the facts and invite those who deny them or cavil at 
them, to come across the border, take off their coloured spectacles, 
and judge for themselves. 
Those who deny the asserted age of our workable coal seams 
affect to rely on the assumed age of that most prominent plant— 
Glossopteris Browniana. They say Glossopteris is an Oolitic 
genus. tc Exactly as in the English beds the Glossopteris is associ¬ 
ated with Tamiopteris ”? i.e., in the assumed Oolitic series. To this 
we may reply that “ Glossopteris Brownian a” which is “ the 
Glossopteris” alluded to in the above extract from the “ llcport 
of the three Commissioners on the Western Port Coal-fields,” 
(p. 8) is a plant utterly unknown in Europe and America, and 
only known in India, 8outh Africa, and Australia, and that Tami- 
opteris, which is said to he associated with it in English beds, 
according to Schimper, the most- recent expounder ot tossil 
botany, is a genus which has only five species, all ot which aro 
Permian i.e,, of Palaeozoic age or of Upper Carboniferous. Even 
if one TcCnioptoris should be found in the same beds with 
Glossopteris, that fact would not invalidate, hut would rather 
strengthen my argument, since the former is Palaeozoic, and the 
latter occurs in the coal seams below the beds which are filled 
with Lower Carboniferous marine fossils ; it is clear that those beds 
and the plant they hold must certainly be Palaeozoic, whatever 
becomes of any other part in the succession of the scries or 
group to which they belong. It was attempted to be shown that 
there exists an inversion of beds at Stony Creek, where five 
seams of coal holding Glossopteris under 143 feet of acknow- 
