New South Wales . 
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In rocks of the same age also a vast deal of mineral wealth of 
other kinds occurs, as ores of copper, iron, lead, antimony, &c. 
In the notes on the Geology of Queensland, by Mr. Daintree, 
(Q.J.G.S., Aug., 1872), the fossils are described and figured by 
Mr. Etheridge ; and to that excellent Memoir the reader is 
referred for much valuable information. Twelve species of the 
fossils are described as Devonian. 
It is interesting to find Dr. Hector stating at the beginning of 
1875, that 2,000 specimens of Lower Devonian or Upper Silurian 
fossils have been obtained from the north-west district of the South 
island of New Zealand ( Ninth Annual Report of the Colonial 
Museum, 1874.) And equally interesting is it to know that New 
Caledonia also holds out hope of contribution to the Middle and 
Lower Paleozoic faunas, as in the Isle Ducos, Leptama, Spirifera, 
Orthis, &c., occur with rolled Rrachiopods of the same character 
as those at the “ Gulf” on the Turon River in this Colony. 
(Annales des Mines, tome xn, p. 51, 1867.) Monsieur M. P. 
Fischer is disposed to assign them to the Devonian period 
(Bulletin de la Soc. Geol. de France , IS Mar., 1867.) 
It may be well to mention that the Old Red exhibits itself in 
association with tho limestone and slaty portions of the formation, 
occupying ranges of considerable extent and prominent character 
in the Western districts, and that a Lcpidodcndron of some local 
interest ( L . nothuni ) also occurs in three of the Colonies. 
It seems as if every individual discovery in the Geology of this 
Colony had a history or literature of its own. 
In June, 1851, Professor M £ Coy wrote to me from Cambridge 
respecting the first Lcpidodendron he had seen from Australia, 
and which I had forwarded by the late Rear-Admiral King to Pro¬ 
fessor Sedgwick, and stated it to be L. tetragonum of the English 
coal fields. 
The late Mr. Salter, in his letter to me of May 0, 1856, said, 
however, that the genus was not Lcpidodendron. 
In November, 1863, Sir C. Bunbury wrote to Professor R. 
Jones, respecting a collection of Australian fossil plants includ¬ 
ing the above species sont home by mo, and now in the Museum 
of tho Geological Society, where they were inspected by him, at 
my request, and noticed one (Meone) which he considered to be 
very like L. tetragonum. 
During the last few years I have collected, or received, this 
plant from a variety of localities on New South Wales and 
Queensland, and from the latter Colony it was also brought in 
abundance by Mr. Daintree. Mr. Carruthers, who has given its 
description fully in the paper before alluded to (Q. J.G.S., Aug., 
1872) has assigned to it the name of a species described by Unger, 
viz., Lepidodendron no/fium. 
