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DITOTy 
REFACE, 
Tiie duty of editing for the press the English translation of my friend the 
Baron von Ettingshausen’s Memoir on the Tertiary Plants of Australia has 
given me the greatest possible pleasure, especially as it became one of my 
first duties on taking up the position of Palaeontologist to the Geological 
Survey of New South Wales. 
I have made no attempt to alter the form of the Memoir, or the 
wording of the translations, except where necessary to bring them in accord 
with the plan adopted for the future survey publications, or to render an 
original idiom more in keeping with its English equivalent. 
A few foot-notes relating to Bibliography have been appended, in 
addition to a Chapter on the Stratigraphy of the Plant-bearing beds. Such 
additions are invariably placed in square brackets [ ]. 
The localities of the specimens described, so far as known, have been 
more clearly defined than in the original Memoir. 
The figured specimens, unless otherwise stated, are in the Mining and 
Geological Museum (Department of Mines). 
R. ETHERIDGE, Jnk. 
Sydney, October , 1888. 
