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preface summarising Ettingshausen's conclusions the Tertiary Flora in general contains 



th- element- of all the living Moras of the globe. This conclusion ne based, first on the occurrence in the 

 European Tertiary Flora of Alnus &c, and other genera peculiar to the Northern Hemisphere, together 

 with .... Eucalyptus and other genera particular to the Southern Hemisphere." 



A* p. 78 Ettingshausen quotes his previous conclusions tha " tin' elements of floras are united, 

 only in tic Tertiary Flora of Europe, the Arctic Regions, North America, and of Australia, hut also 

 in tin- Tertiary Flora* of other portions of the globe. The facts just mentioned confirm this even more 

 strongly. Besides, I am able to state the same result from Eacts obtained by examining the Tertiary 

 Flora of New Zealand. . . . There is now scarcely any doubt that the general character of all 

 Tertiary Floras of the globe is one and tin same in regard to the mixture [including Eucalyptus in both 

 hemisphen s. — J.H.M.] which they exhibit mi id carried, until the separation of the element- of floras into 

 th' special floras towards the present period." 



also the general conclusions at p. 81. 



See also some stratigraphical notes, concerning Dalton, near Gunning, Xew 

 South Wales : — 



The fo<si! plants of this locality are found in layers of clay, sand, and marl, which are ferruginous. 

 ,r s 

 Miocene. 



similar -■ iir also in New England. Mr. 0. S. Wilkinson regards these strata as at least Lower 



The author then enumerates the plants of peculiar interest., and proceeds — 



V . ' - ■ however, there are no forms of specifically Australian character, which would 

 appear to have retreated into the background altogether. A ntlosporum and a Eucalyptus are the only 



plants of this kind. ... I regard the Fossil Flora of Dalton as Eocene." (p. !).) 



For further stratigraphical notes of certain localities containing Eucalyptus 

 deposits, see Etheridge in the same work, p. 185, in regard to the Emmaville deposit 

 containing E. Diemeaii, E. HoutmannL E. Hayi, and p. 187 in regard to a second 

 Emmaville locality containing E. Mitcltelli. 



"I believe that Ettingshausen's conclusions as to the character of the flora and its resemblance to 

 the flora of other parts of the world, as based on the determinations of the Dalton and Vegetable Creek 

 - are utterly wrong." (Deane, Proc. Linn. Soc. A'.N.H'. kx, 654, 1S96.) 



■•Me-.,-. II. dl and Pritchard suggest that the beds at Dalton and Vegetable Creek, which have the 

 same lithologieal character, and which Ettingshausen considered Eocene, may have to be referred back 

 to tii- Cretaceous." (Deane, />.. xxi 857, 1897.) 



At p. 10 Ettingshausen gives E. ocean tea linger, of the Tertiary of Europe; 

 A', sibirica Heer, of the Tertiary of the Antic Zone; E. am, rkana Lesq., of the Tertiary 

 of North America, as the nearest relations to (he Now South Wales and Victorian fossils 

 /:. Ddftii Ett., E. obliqua L'Herit., E. /'ha; McCoy. 



