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1892. Etheridge, R., jim. (Geol. and Pal. Queensland, p. 45), 

 states that a L. Devonian age has been ascribed to various rocks in 

 New South Wales which are now believed to be U. Silurian. 



fbj Victoria. 



1850. Jukes ("Physical Structure") classed the slatyrocks about 

 Port Phillip as Palaeozoic. 



1856. U. Silurian fossils were signalled in the basin of the 

 Yarra by the Geological Survey StafP; but Blandowski (Phil. Soc, 

 Vict., 1857) claims to have been the first to discover fossils in the 

 Silurian sandy slates about Melbourne. 



"CAVE LIMESTOXE" OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 

 This term is used provisionally by the Geological Survey for an 

 extensive series of beds on both flanks of the Cordillera, but the 

 stratigraphical and palfeontological relationships to Upper Silurian, 

 Devonian, and Carboniferous have yet to be determined. 



1820. OxLEY, John (" Two Expeditions," &c.), discovered this 

 limestone at the sources of the Lachlan and Macquarie. 



1821, Btjckland, Dean (Geol. Trans., vol. v., p. 480), referred 

 to it as resembling "transition limestone." 



1831. Cunningham, P., reported the limestone about Bathurst 

 as fossiliferous. 



1833. Sturt, Capt. C. ("Two Expeditions," Sec), quoted it as 

 coralliferous. 



1838. Mitchell, Major ("Three Expeditions," &c.), referred 

 the " Cave Limestone " to the Carboniferous of Europe. See also 

 Report, Geol. Survey, No. 121, p. 43 (1851). 



1845. Morris (in Strzelecki's " Phys. Descript.," p. 296) referred 

 to the Palseozoic deposits at [Yass Plains and] Shoalhaven as the 

 probable equivalents of the Devonian System of Europe. 



1851-2. Stutchbury, S. (Rep. Geol. Surv., N.S.W., No. 22, 

 p. 28 ; id. No. 23, p. 35 ; id. No. 9. p. 29), referred this formation 

 on pala3ontological evidence to the Devonian, "certainly older than 

 the Carboniferous limestone." 



1852. Lonsdale considered the coral fauna to be Devonian. 



1867. Clarke, W. B. (Intercol. Exh. Essays, p. 383), noted that 

 some of the fossils of the limestones or "Passage Beds," to the 

 westward of Wellington have the Carboniferous types and others 

 the Silurian. 



