Nonienclature of Geological Age. 



173 



Thus Professor McCoy has stated/ " This does not alter niy 

 opinion at all of these deposits which the Geological Survey of 

 Victoria may safely accept on my authority as of newer date 

 than any true Eocene Tertiary type, such as the London clay of 

 the south-east of England, or the corresponding part of the 

 Basin of Paris." Again attributable to the same author from 

 the same report we have — " In the long list of fossils" sent to me 

 there are no species characteristic of indisputable Eocene type 

 sections. By far the greater number of the extinct species are 

 peculiar to the Australian strata, and none of them are found in 

 typical Eocene strata elsewhere." It is to be hoped there are not 

 many colonial geologists or even others to be found to uphold 

 such views as these. The consequence of this is to place much 

 of the work of the Geological Survey of our colony in a very 

 peculiar and rather unenviable position. 



This expressed in a brief table, without reference to detailed 

 localities, which may be consulted in a previous paper to this 

 Association,^ appears as follows : — 



I feel that this matter has only been very imperfectly brought 

 forward, but if I have been able to show the somewhat chaotic 

 state of things into which we appear to be drifting, this should 



1 Geo. Surv. Vic, Pro^jress Report, No. viii., 1894, p. 48. 



- Remarks on the Tertiaries of Australia, with a Catalogue of Fossils by G. B. Pritchard, 

 South Australian School of Mines and Industries Report, 1892. 

 3 A.A.A.S., Brisbane, 1895, vol. vi., pp. 359-361. 



