Sydney, July 24 1913 Thursday. Spent the morning in the Aura Dortin Steel Company seeing the furnaces and iron mills. We then went out to the refuse dumps of the coal mine (Palmerston Pit) and saw considerable coal measures plants. Most of the specimens are Chuniostepus, forms, and annularia. The Ly-cosprds are rare. These fossils come from just above the "main seam" about the middle of the Productive series. In these beds there is not a trace of life other than the plants. It is a very fine clay. For lunch we were the guests of the Dominion Coal Company, Dominions Iron and Steel Company and the Aura Dortin Steel Co. A fine lunch but it lasted so long that no late after lunch excursions could be attempted.