40 APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX. 



A. (p. 11.) 



Since the text was in print, tliree or four small pieces of shale 

 were found, which had been brought down by the Expedition and 

 were forwarded to me from Brisbane for inspection ; and on one 

 of them is a portion of a frond which has the characters of 

 Glossopteris. (19th August, 1873.) 



B. (p. 26.) 



In alluding to surveys and mining investigations, I had in view 

 all mineral inquiries, including that for coal, because I considered 

 that if the surveyors and searchers for metals had come across 

 any coal deposits or associated strata, in places not included in 

 any special search, we should have heard of them. 



No one who has read the Address can doubt that I scrupulously 

 avoided all exaggerations, and kept in view the sensible remark I 

 quoted from Mr. Warington Smyth respecting "elements for 

 subtraction." 



It is, however, difficult to find out what precise sums Victoria 

 has expended in her most useful and inimitable surveys and 

 mining operations ; nor do I know exactly how much ought to be 

 set apart for coal search alone, seeing that private operations 

 have left but few traces capable of being expressed in figures. 



But the particulars which I will now mention will be sufficient 

 to show that no charge of exaggeration can justly be brought 

 against me. 



In Mr. Selwvn's return as to total cost of his surveys from 

 1852 to 1861 '(inclusive) [Eeport of 1861], I find (at page 27) 

 an amount of £32,516 Os. 5d., or at an average of £3,612 per 

 annum. This, in the approximate estimate of Mr. Brache 

 (Selwyn's Eeport, 1863, p. 41) from 1852 to 1861 inclusive, 

 comes up to £41,116 9s. lOd. ; and in the introduction to the first 

 volume of the Memoirs of the Geological Society of Italy, 

 according to information derived from Victoria, it is stated that 

 Mr. Selwyn's survey for thirteen years, including salaries, cost 

 2,500,000 Italian lire, which, at the value of 8id. to the lira, is 

 £84,635. The introduction is by the President of the Society, 

 Igiuo Cocchi, and is entitled, "Brevi Cenni sui Principali Instituti 

 e Comitati G-eologici e sul E. Comitate Geologico d'ltalia." 

 (Firenze, 1871.) 



In addition to these estimates is one made by Mr. Brache for 

 Mining Surveys, from 1858 to 1862, which seems to be indepen- 

 dent of the Geological Survey, as it occiu-s in the same report 



