194 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION C. 
Assistant Government Geologist.* If, therefore, the Table 
Cape Permo-Carboniferous glacial beds underlie the Mersey 
coal-measures (Greta (?) coal-measures of New South Wales) 
conformably, they are of Lower Marine Permo-Carboniferous 
age; and if they are to be correlated, as seems probable, 
with the glacial beds of South Australia (such as those of 
Hallett’s Cove), and with those of Victoria (such as the 
Bacchus Marsh beds), then these South Australian and Vic- 
torian beds will (in part at all events) be also of Lower 
Marine Permo-Carboniferous age. This discovery may 
have an important economic bearing. It would seem to 
show that in Victoria and South Australia, and in West 
Australia also (in view of Mr. Maitland’s recent important 
glacial discoveries), the horizon for the Greta Coal (if it be 
developed at all) will be above the main mass of the glacial 
beds. 
Postscript II.—When accompanying the geological excur- 
sion conducted by Mr. G. A. Waller, after the conclusion of 
the Hobart Session, Mr. Walter Howchin considered that 
some Older Paleozoic conglomeratic beds shown him by Mr. 
Waller, on the West Coast of Tasmania, were almost cer- 
tainly the equivalents of the glacial beds recently discovered 
by Mr. Howchin in South Australia, and considered by him 
probably to belong to some part of the Cambrian system. 
These glacial (?) conglomeratic beds were observed at 
II.—Report or SoutH AUSTRALIAN GLACIAL INVESTIGATION 
CoMMITTEE. 
BY WALTER HOWCHIN, F.G.S., 
Lecturer in Geology and Paleontology, University of 
Adelaide. 
We have to report an extended knowledge of the glacial 
features of South Australia, including several discoveries 
of more than ordinary interest. The new data modify pre- 
vious ideas as to the geographical extent, as well as geo 
logical age, of the great extinct icefield which has been the 
subject of previous reports; and also add the discovery of a 
new glacial period for Australia, which must be referred to a 
stratigraphical position very low down in the Paleozoic 
group. 
= Report on a recent eet) of Cannel Coal in the Parish of 
Preolenna, and upon the New Victory Copper Mine, near Arthur 
River. Government Printer, Tasmania, 1901. 
