up two or three new flowers by the way.

Geology. The hills visited today showed much better sections than those of yesterday. Same beds but can see relations here better. (See sketch of general appearance.) The Section in general way as follows;

A.Yelowish sand & sandy clay sometimes indurated in layers so as to form a soft sandstone. Forms tops of highest hills seen. Tops flat plateau like. Say 50 ft.

B.Clays & sandy clays with thin layers of lignite near the top & beds with well preserved fossil plants. Tn the lower third bones of turtles? & of some large vertebrate. Much ironstone in these layers. Beds with poorly preserved plants. Some sand & sandstone showing false bedding & rather abrupt undulations. The whole from a distance of a purplish-grey colour. Say 150 ft.

C.Lower yellowish sands & sandy clays exposed in brook & lateral ravines. Often nodular in horizontal lines. Could see no fossils. Say 80 to 100 ft.

D.Underlaying the last & forming the lower parts of sections in brook vallies near our camp. Greyish black clays of very homogenous aspect, but broken up into small fragments wherever exposed to the weather. Found a few fossil shells poorly preserved but of Marine aspect. Seen above level of brook. Sbay 40 ft.

The whole to all appearance on the large scale horizontal.

The lignites mentioned in division B. are on a level with the tops of the red hills spoken of yesterday & confirm previous supposition. There are three beds of I or 2 feet each in thickness. Separated by rather wide clay partings. The lignites themselves not pure. The lignites on the same horizon can be traced by the eye for miles along the higher hills. Where exposed seem hardly able to account for great alteration of strata where burned out, but probably best & thickest parts have suffered combustion leaving such parts as seen too poor to burn. The partings preventing access of air &c.

The richest plant bed immediately overlies the upper lignite. Consists of whitish clay. Plants very beautifully preserved but clay crumbling & had very little time to collect.

The vertebrate remains are generally closely connected with the ironstone layers & are often converted into that substance. They are