New South Wales. 
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Having personally compared with specimens from Kiltorkan 
(in any possesion) the Syrinyodendron diehotoinum (of Mr. Car- 
rut hers's paper before referred to) which I sent home to England 
some years since, and which is yet in the Geological Society’s 
Museum, let me add that 1 found it in company with the 
Lepidodendron noth uni and some other casts of plants in the 
year l&o2. 
I would remark, that in one locality in Tasmania I collected 
many individuals of a species of bo called Syringodendron, which 
occurred in the Goal Measures at the base of Spring Hill, on the 
slope of which hill Strzelccki stated that he found in beds of sand¬ 
stone Peso pier is odoniopteroidts underlying the Pachydomus 
qtohosit, s% known to Prolessor M £ Coy as a Wollongong Lower 
Carboniferous shell. It is only fair to add, that though I made 
in two different years a close examination of the hill and the 
surrounding district, I failed to recognize the shell, though T saw 
much that reminded me of the geology of certain parts of the 
Hunter Liver Coal formation, and of the Illawarra, of the age of 
which there is little doubt. I have lately learned that at least 
two Marine fossils above the plants have been found on Spring 
Hill- 
On the borders of the Devonian formation in parts of the 
Hunter and Manning Itiver basins, the Lower Carboniferous 
which is highly inclined passes on along the same strike into beds 
charged with Lepidodendron , Knorria , Siyillaria , &e«, and in some 
instances Lepidodendron occurs in the same blocks with ? Otopteris 
ovata of M‘Coy, an example of which was shown in the Exhi¬ 
bition at Sydney in April, 1875, from the east of Stroud. On 
the ranges at the head of the Peel, and about Booral, Stroud, and 
Scone, occur numerous fragmentary blocks with Lepidodendron, 
Sigillaria, and other usually associated fossils of Carboniferous 
beds. 
These and other facts of similar kind have been often stated 
bv me on former occasions. They are referred to on this, in 
order to show the relations of the New South Wales formations. 
At present many of the points where the Upper and Middle 
Paheozoies meet are ill-defined, and it will require the researches 
and labours of many years to fill them in with strict accuracy. 
xvi, p. 111.] In reply to this, and to some very remarkable attempts hv 
another critic to show that I had made out my Palccozoie species from frag¬ 
ments of Mesozoic plants (on which I do not choose to comment), 1 confine 
myself to one further extract from a paper written by me in 1800, and 
published in March, 1801 : — “ T placed years ago in the Australian Museum 
at, Sydney, specimens of these disputed plants, and in the present year 1 saw 
one of the species in the University Museum at Melbourne, which had been 
found in Gippsland. [“ On the relative Positions of certain Plants in the Coal- 
heariny Beds of Australia : By Rev. JJ r . B. Clarice, M. A., P.G.S.” ; Q.J.G.S. 
lxvii.j p. 355.] 
