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yet been found in Queensland or New Guinea, and I doubt 
whether it is older than Tertiary, probably such as the white 
beds of the Australian Bight or of Aldinga. 
Mr. Brady, E.R.S., states that the Foranhnifene are nearly all 
South Atlantic deep-sea species ; there were other fossils also 
found during the “ Challenger” Expedition. 
§ G. Teetiauy Bocks. 
Kainozoic of Duncan. 
Throughout the whole of Eastern Australia, including New 
South Wales and Queensland, no Tertiary Marine deposits have 
been discovered. There are, however, in various places of New 
South "Wales patches of plant deposits which, according to the 
frequent notices of geologists, may be referred to sonic period of 
the Tertiary epoch. A silicified sandstone or quartzite of this 
kind, full of impressions of ferns and leaves of trees, but not 
known to be now living, occurs at Jerrawa Creek not far from 
Yass. It is probably Miocene. On the summit of the Cor¬ 
dillera, near Xundle, about the Peel River Diggings, occurs a 
ferruginous bed full of leaves. On the Richmond River occurs 
a white magnesite, full of yellowish impressions of leaves. At 
Ivewong, in the county of Gowan, there is a bluish deposit of 
line aluminous matter with black impressions. Erom a depth of 
GO feet in a shaft near Bungonia, a pale yellowish white deposit 
with similar impressions was brought up ; and on the summit of 
a “ made” hill, above Kiandra Gold Eield, at a height of 4,000 
feet above the sea, and in a region now partly covered with snow 
many months in the year, there is a deposit of black clay with 
such casts of leaves as occur in similar clay near Hyde in New 
Zealand. 
In recent visits to various gold-fields in the Western districts, 
I have found plant-beds of somewhat similar kind cither cut by 
the shafts or distributed in the wash-dirt below the alluvial 
deposits, underlying in some cases thick masses of basalt. Such 
occur at Gulgong; at Cargo; under Bald Hill at Hill End; 
aud also at Blayney. 
At Lucknow also occur deposits of branches and fragments of 
trees under the basalt, and on the Uralla Gold-field, and at 
Home Rule, on Cooyal Creek, lignite and woody matter of a 
similar kind were seen by me in the lowest deposit of the deepest 
shaft. 
No botanist is willing to declare what is the exact age of such 
deposits ; but some of the leaves aro supposed to represent, 
among others, the foliage of Fag us ; yet it was only in 186G that 
a beech forest was discovered, by the Director of the Botanical 
