314 AUSTRALIAN FORAMINIFKRA, II., 



Ill response to an enquiiy made by the authors as to the 

 supposed age of the beds from which the fossils were taken, Mis.s 

 Lodder has kindly furnished the following information : — "I can 

 onl}^ quote the words of Mr. J. Dennant and Mr. A. E. Kitson 

 in their Catalogue of the ' Described Species of Fossils (except 

 Bryozoa and Foraminifera) in the Cainozoic Fauna of Victoria, 

 S. Australia, and Tasmania,' published in the Records of the 

 •Geological tSurvey of Victoria (Vol. i. pt.2, 1903, p. 189). 



" ' Group C. records the fossils belonging to the Table Cape 

 and Spring Creek Deposits. By Tate they have been named 

 Post-Eocene (Oligocene?), while by Messrs. Hall and Pritchard 

 they are placed on a lower horizon than the distinctlj' Eocene 

 Mornington Beds. Their separate grouping in this catalogue of 

 species is intended to imply that no opinion is expressed con- 

 cerning the relative age of the beds in question. Those interested 

 in the matter should consult original memoirs.'" 



In the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Yol.viii. 

 (New Series; Mr. G. B. Pritchard publishes " A Revision of the 

 Fossil Fauna of the Table Cape Beds, Tasmania, with Descrip- 

 tions of New Species " His inferences regarding the age of the 

 beds are almost identical with our conclusions from a study of 

 the Foraminifera. 



The Foraminifera contained in the Table Bay material have 

 a decidedl}^ Eocene or Palaeogene character, agreeing closely with 

 those enumerated for the Eocene by Howchin.* 



The occurrence of forms answering to the description of Pul- 

 vinulina carpentei'i and Haplophragmiiiin meridionale figured 

 by Chapman in his account of the foraminifera of Pondoland 

 Westf serves as corroborative evidence of the old-Tertiary age of 

 the material. 



Nodosaria zipj^ei and Rotalia soldctnii occur here as well as in 

 Mr. Chapman's Pondoland material which, however, is Cretaceous. 



" Report Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sc. Vol. v. Adelaide, S.A., 1893. 

 t Ann. South African Mus. Vol. iv. Part v. 



