Department of Mines, 
Geological Survey Branch, 
1st October, 18 i 8. 
Sir, 
I have the honor to submit Memoir No. 2 of the Paleontological 
Series of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, on The Tertiary Flora 
of Australia , by Dr. C. Baron von Ettingshausen, who kindly undertook the 
examination of our collections of Tertiary Plants. 
The results of the Baron’s researches were originally written in 
German and communicated to the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna ; 
hut at my request permission was given for their translation into English and 
repuhlication here. The accompanying illustrations have the merit of having 
been printed from the original litho-plates. The work has been edited by 
Mr. R. Etheridge, jnr., Palaeontologist. 
The fossils described in Part I of this Memoir were collected by Mr. 
J. K. Hume, from the Tertiary sandstones at Dalton, and those referred to in 
Part II were obtained by Mr. T. W. E. David, B.A., E.G.S., Geological 
Surveyor, and myself, from the Tin-hearing Deep Lead deposits in the Vegetable 
Creek and Elsmore districts. These deposits, consisting of ferruginous 
clays, sands, and gravels, vary from a few feet to 195 feet in thickness. 
They have been described in Mr. David’s Memoir on The Geology of the 
Vegetable Creek Tin-mining Field, 1887, and in my Report on the Tin-bearing 
Country of New England, July, 1873, which was republished in Mines and 
Mineral Statistics of Neio South JVales, 1875. I then referred them to Lower 
Miocene or PTpper Eocene age on account of their lithological resemblance to 
the leaf-beds of Bacchus Marsh in Victoria, to which Professor McCoy 
assigned that age. This identification as to age has now been confirmed by 
Baron von Ettingshausen, upon the evidence of the large collection of fossil 
plants described in this able Memoir, in w hich reference is also made to other 
Tertiary plants from Australia and Tasmania in the British Museum, and to 
those described by Baron Sir Eerd. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., E.B.S., 
Government Botanist of Victoria, to whom wc arc much indebted for his 
determination of our Pliocene Tertiary Elora. 
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