New South Wales. 
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both flanks of the southern part of the Cordillera. There are 
also numerous corals, included in the list given by me in the 
“Southern Gold Field#'' (p. 285), which also confirm the same 
determination ; and it may be added that the above, and other 
fossils of this age mentioned by me elsewhere, have been 
examined by Palaeontologists of eminence in Europe. Such are 
the genera Eavosites, Canutes, Ptyehophyllum, Calamopora, Syrin- 
gopora, Emmonsia, Alveolites, Cystophyllmn, Ac. These, per¬ 
haps, might not alone satisfy a doubt, but with them occurs 
Eeccptaculites; since 1858, when these were determined, I have 
detected Halysites, which may settle the question as to Upper 
Silurian. AVonlock beds seem to be well developed on the 
Dcleget River. 
Professor De Koninck is not in antagonism with these geolo¬ 
gists, but in the fresh series of my fossils I 10 found among the 
trilobites Staurocephalus, Cromus, Proetus, and Liehas, in addi¬ 
tion to Calymene, Encrinurus, lllamus, Harpes, and Bronteus 
before announced by myself. (See Edition in 1870, p. 6; and 
“ Southern Gold Fielda. 1860,*’ p. 28G.) 
In a paper published by the learned Professor, in the 
“ Memo ires de la Societc Bor/ale de Liege” 2 de Seric, t. vi., 1S7G, 
dedicated to the Silurian and Devonian species of N.S.W., for¬ 
warded to him for his examination and description by myself, lie 
gives those, as detailed in Appendices XIV and XV, whichI have 
thus above epitomized. The description is given in a separate 
form, with carefully executed figures, under the heading of 
“ Becker ekes sur les Fossiles Balcozoiques de la Nouvelle-G aides da 
Sucl” in which, as will be noticed under the next section, are 
included the Devonian fossils. 
§ 3. MmnLK Paleozoic Rocks. 
The late Mr. Jukes desired the term Devonian to he eliminated, 
referring the so-called beds to the bottom of the Carboniferous 
formation ; but geologists have not generally accepted that 
proposal. Tab series of shells, corals, &c., from the Murrum- 
hidgee, which 1 submitted in 1858 to Messrs. Salter and Lons¬ 
dale, through Sir R. I. Murchison, Bart.,* excited doubts as to 
their belonging to any but Silurian and Carboniferous deposits. 
Among these were Phanerotinus, Loxonema, Atrypa reticularis , 
Orthis resit pin ata, Murchisonia, Strophomcna, and Spirifera of 
various species. 
Mr. Salter’s Report to me was as follows: “These fossils are 
of a mixed character, many being of unquestionable Silurian age, 
and others having all the aspect of Carboniferous and Devonian 
* See Murchison’s “ Siluria” 3d ed., p. 226, and 4th ed., p. 276 and p. 462. 
