New South Wales . 
where ; and although in tlie Upper seams they may not he known, 
we have the testimony of Sir Thomas Mitchell, on the authority 
of the late Mr. Lonsdale (“ Parliamentary Papers , 14 January , 
1852”), that a Lepidodeudron was found “ in sandstone” between 
Windsor and Parramatta, that sandstone with impression of 
Lepidodeudron was also found over granite near Cox’s lliver,” 
and I possess a east of a Lepidodeudron (verified as such by 
Mr. It. Etheridge, junr.) in sandstone also, from the banks of 
the Warragamba, between the junction of the Wollondilly with 
Cox’s ltiver and the junction of the Warragamba with the 
Nepean, being one in a Devonian area, and the others in the 
Wianamatta Lanin. And if it be argued that they all came from 
one source, and were drift fragments (which may be or not be 
the ease) still, as wc discover elsewhere in Australia that the 
drift Lepidodendra are almost all found not far from the parent 
beds, the inference would naturally be that these bad not drifted 
far to the localities now pointed out. 
Mr. ALAlillau himself told me in Melbourne in 1800 that the 
Lepidodeudron found by him, and which was I presume the one 
I saw in the Museum, and which is figured by Professor M‘Coy, 
was picked up from the surface and first used to keep a door 
open or shut in a store at Melbourne* But- if it was not taken 
from its bed it is of no more value than any of those scattered 
about the surface of Australia elsewhere. But the inferential 
value is the same in all the eases. 
The subject, however, with which we are now concerned need 
not depend on such data. 
Professor M‘Coy states that “ the sandstone containing the 
present species in Victoria has been found by Mr. Howitt over a 
large extent of GHppsland to lie always unconformably on the 
upturned edges of the true Devonian rocks * and Air. Selwyn 
mentions other specimens of Lepidodeudron from the Avon. 
These admissions are worth very much to any controversy 1 
may have had with the able and skilled Paheontologist of Victoria, 
whose judgment as to genus or species I have no pretensions to 
* I now recollect tlmt Professor M‘Coy has admitted this fact* “as to the 
specimen lie alludes to in the Melbourne Museum, the Government. Geologist 
can testify that on first seeing it some years ago in a store at Melbourne , 
I at once characterised it to him as the most important palaeontological 
specimen ever found in the Colony,” &e. [“ Commentary” read before the 
Roy. Soc.y Melbourne^ 25th June, 1*860.] lint in 1861 the Professor had not 
apparently realised t he value of the find, for he says in the “ Catalogue of the 
Victorian Exhibition, 1861,” p. 161: “Having ns yet seen no distinct identifi¬ 
cations to prove the existence in Australia of the intermediate Middle Palaeo¬ 
zoic or Devonian formations ;** but in 1857 be speculated on the occurrence of 
the Carboniferous formation all the way from the Avon into N. S. Wales. 
[Evidence before Parliament,” 18th August, 1857.” ‘ Progress Report on 
Coal Fields,” see infra."] 
