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Notes on the Fossil Flora of Eastern Australia and 
asmania, 
By Orroxar Fersrmantet, M.D., Paleontologist, Geological 
Survey, Calcutta. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S. W., 4 August, 1880.] 
{xy 1876 the late very lamented Rev. W. B. Clarke, of Sydney. 
N. 8. Wales, forwarded to me a collection of Australian fossil 
plants for comparison with the Gondwana plants of India, and 
ed 
myself in the German Paleontographica (edited by Dunker and 
Zittel) in 1878, 
In 1878 I received another smaller but nevertheless very 
it is also published in the German Palontographica, 1879, and 
illustrated by twelve plates, and in a few weeks I shall have the 
honour of forwarding these papers on the Australian Flora, together 
with others on the Indian Flora, to Mr. C. 8. Wilkinson. In the 
meantime I think the following notes may be useful as a general 
review of the whole work. E 
flora under consideration belongs to the paleozoic and 
Mesozoic formations, while the few tertiary plants, which were 
also sent, will be described later—perhaps together with some 
more plants with which I may be favoured for description. 
Fossil plants from the mentioned strata are known at present 
from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania ; 
from all “these districts, except the Colony of Victoria, plants 
lh ew : 
Mr. Clarke’s a i fourth edition of his Remarks, &c., and 
Mr. R. Sehaiiges Cossmanee ar cee Fossils, 1878. 
