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the district ; that they are rich in fossils, and that on the whole 

 they bear a striking resemblance to the beds of the London clay 

 and Hampshire basins. He says that in a well sinking at 

 Prahran fossil shells were found in ferruginous sandstone, and 

 also near Flemington overlying -basalt. The beds were stated 

 to bear a strong resemblance to the Crag of Suffolk, but the 

 relation between the Flemington beds and those of Brighton was 

 still uncertain. In dealing with the recent estuary beds, he 

 says : — " Between Sandridge and Melbourne these beds have been 

 proved to a depth of fifty feet, by a series of borings recently 

 executed by Mr. Christie. In all the bores he has obtained 

 recent shells, at various depths from the surface to about thirty 

 feet ; the accompanying section along the line of borings I have 

 drawn from the data furnished by Mr. Christie, and on examina- 

 tion which he has kindly permitted me to make of the specimens 

 obtained from each bore, at every one or two feet." The section 

 shows tertiary beds under the estuarine series. 



In the following year Mr. Wm, Blandowski (2) referred to 

 what are apparently the ferruginous beds of Flemington as 

 belonging to the ''uppermost tertiary formation," and stated that 

 the fossils are living species. 



In the following year Mr. Selwyn (3) briefly described the 

 localities and lithological character of the tertiary beds of the 

 area indicated by the title of his paper, but made no subdivisions, 

 classing together the consolidated sand dunes of Point Nepean, 

 the ferruginous sands and gravels which are so widely spread, and 

 the blue clays of Mornington. The succession of the beds was 

 shown, the richest fossil localities were indicated and a list of 

 some of the genera was given. 



The four geological quarter-sheets, showing the boundaries of 

 the different formations in the neighbourhood of Melbourne, were 

 issued apparently early in 1860, and are indispensable to any one 

 examining the district. The country round Brighton has not yet 

 been surveyed in detail. 



In 1872 Mr. R. Brough Smyth (I) summarised the work of 

 the Geological Survey, and gave a table showing the accepted 

 classification of the Victorian tertiaries as they had been from 

 time to time interpreted by Sir Frederick McCoy. The Marine 

 beds of Flemington were referred to the Pliocene, and the white 



