Tertiaries In the Neighbourhood of Melbourne. 215 



Mines for 1894. The beds of course vary in thickness in the 

 different localities. The series may be taken as follows : — 



1. Newer Volcanic - - - - - 60 feet 



2. Marine Tertiaries. The upper part ferrugi- 



nous sands and yellow clays, which are 

 unfossiliferous. The lower part yellow and 

 gray clays with hard limestone bands 

 (Eocene fossils) - - - - - 120 feet 



3. Estuarine and freshwater beds, composed of 



sands, clays, fine and coarse conglomerates, 



with seams of brown coal - - 190 feet 



4. Silurian (bored into for over 70 ft.). 



Most of the fossils recorded were obtained from the spoil heap 

 of the shaft. 

 Foraminifera. 



Very common. 

 Porifera. 



Spicules abundant. 

 Zoantharia. 



Notocyathus, sp. 

 Flabellum victoria?, Duncan. 



,, candeanum, Edwards & Haime. 



Placotrochus deltoideus, Duncan. 

 Polyzoa. 



Very common. 

 Brachiopoda. 



Terebratulina scoulari, Davidson. 

 Terebratula vitreoides, Tate. 

 Lamellibranchiata. 

 Ostrea, sp. 



Dimya dissimilis, Tate. 

 Lima bassii, T. Wds. 

 Spondylus pseudoradula, McCoy. 

 * Nucula atkinsoni, Johnston. 

 ,, tenisoni, Pritchard. 

 Leda huttoni, Tate. 

 ,, obolella, Tate. 

 ,, woodsii 1, Tate. 

 ,, vagans, Tate. 



