New South JVales. 
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The differences between the conditions of the Damtida Coal¬ 
beds of India and the Coal-beds of New South Wales are by the 
allowance of Dr. Ecist mantel sufficiently striking to justify delay 
until further evidences have been produced for their union or 
identity. At one time I held the opinion that the Damuda was 
our nearest ally in tho defence of a Carboniferous age, but as 
that has now to be regarded in a different light, the differences 
alluded to must bo taken to imply somewhat different positions 
for tho two formations.- Dor the absence of Marine fossils in 
India, and the dissimilarity of botanical species among the plants, 
with some other particulars, leave a margin for the adoption of a 
provisional later date for the one than for the other. 
But 1 say-this without prejudice, and though I had once on 
this subject to dip my pen in the ink of controversy, I am willing 
to accept with thankfulness the valuable instruction derived from 
the able critical examination of the plants that has thrown so 
much light on the comparative fossil vegetation of India and 
Australia, and this too in continuation of what long ago I believed 
to exist, tho presence in tho latter of true Triabsic as well as 
Jurassic strata.* 
Queensland and Western Australia. — Mr. Charles Moore (of 
Bath), F.G.S., enumerates 171 species of Secondary animal fossils 
from Queensland, all sent to him for description by myself ; and 
sixty-two from Western Australia, of which twenty species are 
common to England and that Colony. (See Q. J. G. S, xxvi, 201.) 
(See Appendix XIX.) 
In Mr. Dalrymple’s “ Report of It is Exploration on the North¬ 
east Coast of Queensland ,” (Brisbane , 1873, p. 20.), that enter¬ 
prising observer states that the flat-topped ranges and mountains 
* It will bo som from the following extract of a communication made by 
me to M. le Vicomte cl'Archaic, 14 Nov., 1850, ami which was published in tin* 
“ Bull. Geot. Soc. France” that I held opinions expressed as at the present 
respecting the position of Glossopieris in India mentioned by Hr. Oldham : — 
“ D’oii foil pent inferer au moms qnc ee genre ne enraeterise pas seulement 
l'fcre Jtirnssique. II pout s’etendre au-dessous aussi bien qu’ au-dessus, ct, 
pronant ces ittits c» consideration, on ne pent pas y voir un motif oppose a ee 
quo j’ai dit si fiouvent, quo hi formation Carboniiere dc hi Nouvelle-Galles 
clu Sud ne pent etre purtagee coniine 1c propose M. M*C’oy, ot. quo, tandis 
Qifelle montre do nombreuscs analogies avee cellos do fEurope, idle emlilhhv 
par f existence a cede epoque do genres qui ailleurs se moritreut seulement 
dans la formation Juragsiquc. 
“II rests done a fairs anjourd'htu vve cojnpa raison attentive dc ces espheaa 
de pi antes do u tenses de VInde , dc V.lustvatic, dc VAnfelcrrr, j'ajontorai 
dc V Afrhjxie on tes G lossopierts sc rencontrcnt , dit- 011 , dans jcs couches a 
Dicynodon de Illaun-Kopf.” (Extrait d'une lettre do W. E. Clarke, a M. 
d’Archiac : Hull., xviii, p. 660.) 
Dr. Feistmantcl is now endeavouring to satisfy this desirable object :n 
relation to India. 
