New South Wales. 
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dichotomum and the other is L . rimosum of Sternberg, and that 
both are undoubted plants of the true (European and American) 
coal measures. 
Having personally compared with specimens from Kiltorkan 
(in my possession) the Syringodendron dichotomum (of Mr. Car- 
ruthers’ paper before referred to) which I sent home to England 
some years since, and which is yet in the Geological Society’s 
Museum, let mo add that I found it in company with, the 
Lcpidodendroji noth urn and some other casts of plants, in the 
year 1S52. 
I would remark, that in one locality in Tasmania I collected 
many individuals of a species of so called Syringodendron, which 
occurred in the coal measures at the base of Spring Hill, on the 
slope of which hill Strzclccki stated that ho found in beds of sand¬ 
stone Pecopicris odont opt oroide, s* underlying the Pacing damns 
glolosus, known to Professor M‘Coy as a Wollongong Lower 
Carboniferous shell. It is only fair to add that though I. made 
in two different years a close examination of the hill and the 
surrounding district 1 failed to recognise the shell, though I saw 
much that reminded me of the geology of certain parts of the 
Hunter Eiver coal formation, and of the lllawarra, of the age of 
which there is little doubt. 
On the borders of the Devonian formation in parts of the 
Hunter and Manning Eiver basins, tbo Lower Carboniferous 
which is highly inclined passes on along the same strike into beds 
charged with Lepidodcndron , Knorria , Sig Maria, See., and in some 
instances Lepidodcndron occurs in the same blocks with? Oloptcris 
ovata of M'Coy, an example of which was shown in the Exhi¬ 
bition at Sydney in April, 1875, from the east of Stroud. On 
the ranges at the head of the Peel, and about Eooral, Stroud, and 
Scone occur numerous fragmentary blocks with Lepidodcndron 
and other usually associated fossils of what by many would bo 
considered Lower Carboniferous beds. 
These and other facts of similar kind have been often stated 
by me on former occasions. They are referred to on this, in order 
to show the relations of the New South Wales formations. At 
present many of the points where the Upper and Middle 
Palaeozoics meet arc ill-defined, and it will require the researches 
and labours of many years to fill them in with strict accuracy. 
Nor can it be wondered at, that in so large a territory and with 
such complicated and broken features details must for a long 
period to come give way to generalizations. Aware of what is 
wanting I, nevertheless, accept with satisfaction the testimony 
offered to the work I have endeavoured to perform, because 
what has been accomplished by me single-handed, and without 
the aid which workers in such a field expect and receive from 
public funds, lias been undertaken and carried out, so far as 
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