New South Wales. 
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At Beechworth (El Dorado) occur wood and leaves in variably 
coloured clay above coarse drift, covering black clay with wood 
and leaves ; and below this, two to eight feet of washdirt, holding 
fruits and woods, resting on granite. (From Mr. Arrowsmith’s 
plan. Id .) 
Professor M { Coy has enumerated in the list of Tertiary Vic¬ 
torian fossils between thirty and forty Oliyocene species; thirty 
to fifty or more Miocene, together with many tropical types of 
Dicotyledonous plants ; and from the auriferous drifts four Mol¬ 
luscs, six Marsupials, and a Dingo, with the wood and fruit of a 
Banksia and the foliage of Eucalyptus oblidua. These are partly 
Pliocene and partly Post pliocene, lie has also figured and de¬ 
scribed a new Squalodon (S. IVilk in so nil) from the Cape Otway 
coast Miocene beds, and some species of Catcharodon from the 
Geelong district. 
The occurrence of Banksia (four species) in the Tertiary for¬ 
mations of lice ring, in the Tyrol (see Clarke’s “ Southern Gold 
Fields p. 173) and in Victoria, is a highly instructive fact as to 
the ancient vegetation of the world. The seed-vessels of plants 
deep below the surface of the auriferous drifts of Victoria and 
New South AVales were also mentioned by me in 1860, iu the 
work alluded to above (p. 173). 
In 1S70 I collected a number of seed-vessels and leaves from 
the “leads” of IToine Buie, and since then Mr. Wilkinson has 
made a considerable addition, from the auriferous deposits at 
Gulgong, to the species described, from the district of The Forest 
and Belieree. 
Baron Von Mueller has described them as 
Ochthodocaryon 
Eisothccaryon 
Illieites 
Pentaeoila... 
Pleiacron ... 
Acrocoila .. 
* Ph yinatocaryon 
*Plesiocapparis 
Spondylostrobus 
Wilkinsonia 
n the following list:— 
Wilhinsonii. 
semiseptalum, 
ostrocaipo. 
Gulcjongensis. 
elacliocarpum. 
anodonta. 
Involve, 
leptocelyphis. 
Smytliii. 
bilaminata. 
The latter as well as other species of those genera marked * 
found also at The Forest. 1 n addition to these another has been 
found. 
Towards the north of the Cape York Peninsula the sandstones 
are barren of fossils, and about the Cape seem to have more the 
character of Latente , resting on Porphyry. 
Mr. Wilkinson, in his researches among the tin-mines of New 
England, recognized the drifts which in Victoria are considered 
Pliocene; and Mr. Norman Taylor and the late Professor 
