New South Wales. 
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a visit been paid by him to the localities of Bix’s Creek, or to 
Anvil and to Stony Creeks, or to Mount Wingen, such an assertion 
would not have required fresh denial from me; and to jump from 
the Wall send seam to Bix’s Creek and A nvil Creek without any 
examination of the section of the intermediate localities, or to deny 
the existence of Glossopteris at those and other places among the 
Marine beds which are so interpolated, is to do away with the whole 
merit of such a section as the “ Notes ” pretend to represent. 
Since the date of Mr. ’Daintrco’s visit, Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, 
I'.Gr.S., another first-class member of the same stall’ of excellent 
geologists on the late Victorian Survey, has succeeded to the 
office of Geological Surveyor in New South Wales. It may be 
sufficient to quote one sentence on his authority: “The collec¬ 
tion of fossils from near West Maitland, Greta, and Anvil Creek 
includes Spirifer, Conularia, Inoceramus, Productus, Eencstclla, 
Bellerophon, Crmoidal stems, &c., obtained from the Upper Marine 
beds 350 feet above the Anvil Creek Coal-seam, from which scam 
I collected the specimens now shown, containing the Phyllotheca 
and Glossopteris Browniana ” (“ Mineral Exhibits” from “ Mines 
and Mineral Statistics of New South Wales 7 1875,” p. 133, for 
Philadelphia Exhibition). 
I will quote here an additional testimony to the facts already 
declared, respecting the interpolation of our Glossopteris Coal in 
the Marine beds. Mr. Odcrnheimer in his final report to tlio 
Australian Agricultural Company, says: — “ The lowest Coal-seam 
at Wolldngong rests on older spirifer sandstone, and is covered by 
sandstone, with Paehydomus shells and a few Spirifers,” (p. 88.) 
I have paid more attention, perhaps, to the “ Bcport on the 
Western Port Coal-fields of 1872,” than it deserves ; but as it 
contains specific allusions to myself, and in fact is an attack 011 
the evidence I have conscientiously given on the subject of New 
South Wales Geology, it is only just to that Colony to show that 
the conclusions arrived at in that report are “based ” as much 011 
personal ignorance respecting our territory, and a pre-determi¬ 
nation to disbelieve the statements of men quite as much entitled 
to be believed as the writers of that report themselves, as on 
anything else. I am thoroughly persuaded that if such personal 
investigation on his part had taken place, an old correspondent 
and assumed friend of my own would not have dealt with my 
writings as he has done. 
The advocates for the Oolitic (or as now called, Mesozoic) age 
of our Coal plead the cases of Bichmond in America, and India, as 
well as China; Africa is unnoticed. It will be fitting to produce 
evidence on each head. 
China. —Mr. Pumpelly is the only authority quoted by the 
Victorian Board, who make him to have in 1862-G5 found in the 
Coal-beds fossils proving that “ those beds are geologically of the 
