44 AUSTRALIAN VEOKTATION AND ITS (JKOLOGICAL DE\'ELOPMENT. 



by Mr. W. H. Rands in Cretaceous rocks of this group. This 

 survival is most remarkable, although, in India and South 

 Africa, Glos.sopteris is found in beds of Triassic age. 

 ■ Tkrtiary Pekioi). 

 The Tertiary rocks are mainly represented in Queensland 

 by volcanic beds, and are therefore not likely to yield many 

 specimens of fossil plants. There is therefore an immense gap 

 in the record, between Mr. Stokes' fossil plants, and the flora 

 now existing in Queensland, which may yet be bridged over by 

 future discoveries. The post- tertiary deposits are mainly river 

 and lake drifts, raised beaches and sand dunes ; and so far have 

 given no assistance whatever in tracing the descent of living 

 plants to their old-time ancestors. In New South Wales, how- 

 ever, tertiary plant fossils are common, and approach partly to 

 modern Australian species and partly to the l^uropean and North 

 American floras. In the gold-tields of Victoria, too, dicotyle- 

 donous fruits have been found, and determined by the late Baron 

 F. von Mueller. 



THE INSPECTION OF HOME AND EXPORT 

 MEAT SI PPEV. 



By W. C. QUINNELL, M.R.C.Y.S.L. 



[Head before the Iloyal Society of (Ju^enslund, 16th June, 1900.] 

 (Withdrawn at Request of Author.) 



