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Mr. Selwyn reported plants from Mount Tambo, but Mr. 
Howitt [“ On Devonian Hocks of North, Gipps land. Rror/ress 
Report No. Ill, p. 233] says that in 1870 lie could not find 
any. That locality is not very far from the one visited by me. 
1 certainly saw no Lepidodcndron near Tambo or at the head of 
the Indi, but fossil wood occurr >d at Tambo Bluff, where it had also 
been found by Mr. John Wilkinson and Mr. Tycrs, then engaged 
in their survey; before 1850, and in a letter written in that year, 
about twelve months before I visited Omeo. the latter spoke of 
the Bindi and Buchan limestones as mountain limestone, which 
1 mention merely to show that others beside myself had at that 
time the same impression respecting the Sedimentary deposits of 
the vicinity. 
The subsequent investigations by Mr. Howitt proved that the 
deposits in question were Middle Devonian; 
My object in referring to this otherwise unimportant matter 
has been to explain the last passage in the note below (quoted 
from the last Edition of this memoir, as it appears in u Mines mut 
Mineral Statistics of New South Walesf 1S75, p. 161, and which 
was accidentally left incomplete.^ 
These references and quotations bear upon the possible 
relation of Lepidodendron to the Devonian Marine fossils in the 
localities mentioned. 
Mr. Ho wilt's Deport is very valuable on many accounts. He 
has made out with considerable precision the actual sequence of 
the Devonian beds over a large area, and places them not only 
ns they should be above the Silurian, blit as Having once 
* Note.— In Queensland, the Burnet Bunge, the Mount Wyatt District , ami 
tracts about the Bowen Gold Field and Burdekin (on which river limestones 
with fossils occur), arc strewn with spoils of a formation which Mr. Daintree 
calls Devonian. From the former locality 1 have lmd many collections, and 
among them all I find Product us in alliance with Trilobites which appear 
to be older than Carboniferous. On the western thinks of the Cordillera 
near Yass, and on the eastern along the Shoulhavvn Biver, and again near 
the Hanging Bock, New South Wales presents numerous bands of limestone 
full of such fossils; but it is doubtful at present whether these lie on the 
horizon of the Devonian, or whether they belong to some portion of tin* 
Upper Silurian. As these beds appear to range all through the country 011 
a nearly meridional st rike on both sides of the Cordillera, t hey are traceable 
in widely different places-; and it may eventually be determined, that 
though in close contact, there is really a distinction of formations only to be 
detected by accurate survey. So far as Lepidodendron is concerned, that 
plant occurs in some places in assoeiat ion with beds that a«e decidedly 
vounger than any called Devonian, near Pallal on the Horton Biver, and on 
1 )ie Manilla Biver in Liverpool Plains, and in the gold-drift of flic Turon 
Biver, which lias been derived from beds of transmitted sandstone 
belonging to the Coal-beds at the bead of the river. It occurs thus on Dan- 
gera Creek, Yalwal. Near Wellington, also, Lepidodendron has been found 
in hardened rock of similar origin. At Canoona Gold Field, in Queensland, 
Lepidodendron occurs in hardened shales; and at G 001100 Goonoo, on the 
