New South Wales. 
the most characteristic common types, drawn up by Professor 
M‘Coy, which, under the head of Devonian, includes the follow¬ 
ing: Favosites (two species), Spirifera Iwvicostata, Grammysia 
(n. sp.), Orthonota (n. s.), Asterolepis (plates allied to). ' In 
1847 the same skilful' Paleontologist noticed some striking 
resemblances to Devonian fossils in a few of the large collection 
1 sent in to the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge; and 
Professor de Koninck, also in 1847 ( llecherches sur animaux 
fossiles ) records Sp. MurcJiisonianus, a Devonian fossil from Tas¬ 
mania. 
In order to test the existence of a wide-spread Devonian 
series in New South Wales, I requested (as stated elsewhere) 
my friend Profossor de Ivoninck, to undertake the examination 
of a collection of 1,000 Pahcozoic fossils, comprising the Upper, 
Middle, and. Lower Palaeozoic formations as they exist here, and 
he has just favoured me with his account of tlie Devonian forms, 
concluding it as follows :— 
“Of 81 species observed, tliero are but fivo belonging to the Upper 
Devonian, all the rest are of lower beds. Of these 81, thirty are new to 
science, and are Australian; but save four, all have their types in Europe 
and America, and have the same character and position as those.” 
Amongst these tho Professor includes the fossils I referred to 
in the last edition of this Memoir (p. 10), from Yass, Mount 
Lambie, and on the Turon and Moruya Hirers, and which are 
in part, identical with tho Mount Wyatt shells in Queensland. 
These latter aro mostly Brachiopods, and I have collected them 
during my different journeys of several years from the western 
boundary of the Carboniferous formation (underlying it in 
situ), and occasionally from a scattered over-lying drift, ranging 
for nearly 200 miles of direct distance (included between 36° 
south on the Moruya, to nearly 32° south.) The principal of 
these particular Brachiopods, are: — lihynconeJla pleurodon It. 
pur/mix, Spirifer disjmetus, S. Yassensis; Ortliidce, Productw, &c. 
They occur in situ between the slaty rocks of Sofala and ’ the 
overlying Carboniferous beds on the Turon ; south of Moruya 
Diver; near Mullamuddy on the Cudgegong Kiver; at Cud“e- 
goug Creek j in the deep defiles of the Upper Colo River • and 
in other places. Mr. C. 8. Wilkinson, with whom I visited the 
locality a month or two ago, found them under interesting cir¬ 
cumstances occurring in a great synclinal curve, from nearly the 
summits of Mount Lambie and Mount Walker (with consider¬ 
able dips), and explaining tho sources from which the loose 
pebbles collected by me at Bowcnfells some years since, were 
probably derived. From the occurrence of different fossils ’in tho 
pebbles, it is certain that many strata of the Devonian forma¬ 
tion must have been broken up, and it seems that similar beds 
nave undergone the same process in other countries, for I well 
