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to the distribution of certain vegetable fossils in the adjoining 

 table,* wherein, as well as from other evidences, we may be 

 able to draw conclusions as to the close relation of strata 

 associated with the Victorian gold drifts to the Launceston 

 Tertiary Basin, the Eisdon travertin, the Brandy Creek 

 " deep lead," and to certain jDoints in New South Wales. 



It will be seen, therefore, that certain genera and species 

 of the older auriferous drifts have had a very wide range, 

 as it includes New South Wales, Yictoria, Tasmania, and 

 perhaps Queensland. It is to be hoped that those interested 

 in the working of the mines at Brandy Creek will interest 

 themselves in preserving the fruit remains, which ought to 

 be found freely in the carbonaceous clays through which 

 they sink. It may afterwards form a useful indication to 

 our miners in search of the valuable metals, as well as add 

 to our scientific knowledge of the flora of the early Tertiary 

 period; 



* The names of fruits subsequently identified are also included. 



