BY FRITZ NOETLING, M.A., Ph.D., ETC. 261 



the dingo in Victoria. All those who have earnestly 

 studied the subject, like Howitt, Gregory, Etheridge, 

 and myself, come to the conclusion that the arrival of 

 man in Australia must be of very recent age. We all 

 agree tliat it must come, as far as Tasmania is concerned, 

 between the above two limits, which in my opinion are 

 represented in absolute time by 5,000 B.C. and 3,000 

 B.C., and that it was finished when the dingo appeared 

 in Southern Victoria. 



The foregoing features are summarised in the following 

 table:— ' i 



Stacks. Geological Events. 



Present 

 Times. 



Complete separation of 

 Tasmania and -\ustralia 



' Formation of Bass Strait 

 finished (about 5000 

 Pre-- years ago) 



H i sto r i c 



Times. ; Submergence of I'assian 

 i Isthmus continues 

 I (about 7000 years ago) 



Sediments and 

 Rocks. 



Fauna. 



Modern Silts and 



Sands 



F'. rmation of 



Shell Heaps. 



The European 



Race occupies 



Tasmania, 



Immigration of 



Canis Dingo in 



Australia, 



'\ ^ 



Gradual destruc- 

 tion of Eassian 

 Isthmus 



Submergence of 

 Land 'about 

 ID 000 vears a^c) 



O 



Si ! 

 .0 I 



Gradual rise of land 

 a broad isthmus 

 connects Tas, and 

 Aust. The com- 

 bined rivers of S. 

 Vic. and N Tas. 

 form large stre^.m 

 which flows in a 

 western direction 

 across the isthmus 

 (about 50,000 years 

 ago). 



Last 



Glaciation j Glaciation of Tasmania 

 Wuerm | (about 60,000 years ago) 

 S^age. I 



Immigration of 

 the Tasmanian 



Aborigines 

 5000-3000 B.C. 



Basal '.s of Table 



Cape. 



One Tree Point, 



Geilston, etc. 



I Fauna not known 

 I yet. 



Formation of 

 Gravel Terraces. 



Wynyard Beds (?), 



Moraines in 



different parts of 



Tasmania. 



Gigantic I\Iarsu- 

 pialia disappear. 



Diprotodon 

 Fauna. 



Fauna unknown, 



but most probably 



of Arctic 



character. 



