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the earliest quarries, long since abandoned, are soon encountered. 

 From here to the Bald Hill thick bedded shales, sandstone, and 

 conglomorates crop out, which revealed here and there plant 

 impressions, some being long rush-like forms, while others are 

 recognized as the Gangamopteris, long since described by Professor 

 M'Coy in Decade II. of "Victorian Palaeontology." Reaching 

 the quarries at Bald Hill (from which the sandstone used in the 

 building of the old Treasury was obtained) some 50 ft. to 60 ft. of 

 a face may be seen, while many thousands of tons of discarded 

 stones are lying down the hill. The face of the quarry shows in 

 many places the weathering away of the rocks caused by the action 

 of the atmosphere. The lower bed is evidently by far the better 

 stone. The general effect of the weather upon the stone in the 

 quarry is certainly not such as to give one great confidence in its 

 durability either for building or other purposes. The beds dip in 

 a south-easterly direction from 30 to 35 degrees, and the outcrop 

 here appears to be the northern denuded upturned edge of what 

 was once in Lower Mesozoic times an extensive basin, reaching 

 much farther north than the present outcrop ; but the northern 

 boundary, of which the action of denudation in the long ages of 

 the past has completely obliterated, clearly passes underneath the 

 tertiary formations of Bacchus Marsh. — G. S. 



EXHIBITION OF WILD FLOWERS. 



The annual wild flower show of the Field Naturalists' Club was 

 held on Monday, 6th October, at the Royal Society's Hall. The 

 flowers shown were about as numerous and of very much the 

 same species as in former years, and, in consequence of the 

 favourable weather for two or three days before the show, were in 

 very good condition. It is to be regretted that a deficiency of 

 table space prevented several exhibits from being shown to good 

 advantage. The chief exhibitors were the following : — Mr. F. 

 G. A. Barnard, from Wandin Yallock and the Dandenong State 

 Forest; Mr. G. Coghill, from Eltham, Castlemaine, Tooradin, 

 Elphinstone, and Benalla ; Miss Cochrane, from Cheltenham ; 

 Mr. A. Elliot, ferns, &c, cultivated at the University Gardens ; 

 Mr. C. French, from the Wimmera; Messrs. C. French, jun., and 

 G. French, from Cheltenham and Sandringham ; Mr. Frost, from 

 Castlemaine ; Mr. Gatliff, from Heathcote ; Mr. Guilfoyle, native 

 plants cultivated at the Botanical Gardens ; Miss Halley, from 

 Point Lonsdale ; Mr. T. S. Hart, from Nar-nar-goon ; Mr. King, 

 from Echuca ; Mr. Le Souef, from Heathcote ; Miss Roberts, 

 from Oakleigh, Dandenong, and South Preston ; Mr. Robinson, 

 from Berwick ; Mr. W. Scott, from Eltham ; Mr. H. T. Tisdall, 

 from Caulfield and Eltham ; Mr. Topp, from Caulfield and 

 Cheltenham ; Mr. West, from Phillip Island. 



