52 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 



1870. Thompson, Dk. A. M. (Journ. Roy. Soc, N.S.W., 

 p. 57), remarked that the fossils of the lower stratified deposits 

 about Goulburn are closelj^ allied to Upper Silurian forms, but in 

 the higher strata to the westward the fossils make an approach to 

 Carboniferous types. 



1878. Jenkins, C. (Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W., iti., pp. 21-32), 

 refers to the thick black limestone of Cave Fiat, Murrumbidgee, as 

 of Devonian age. 



1886. Wilkinson, C. S. ("The Railway Guide of N.S.W."), 

 proposed to include the limestone of the Jenolan Caves under the 

 name " Siluro-Devonian." 



1887. Wilkinson, C. S. (" Geol. of N.S.W." p. 54), thinks 

 they may be classed with the highest beds in the Silurian Series. 



1889. Mitchell, John (Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sc, i., p. 296)^ 

 describes the Cave Flat beds, and throws doubt on their supposed 

 Devonian age. 



MIDDLE DEVONIAN. 

 (a) Victoria. 



1867. McCoy (Intercol. Exh. Essays, p. 327) correlated the 

 limestones of Buchan and Bindi, in Gippsland, with the European 

 M. Devonian. 



1874. McCoy (Geol. Surv., Victoria, vol. ii., p. 72) added the 

 Tabberaberra shales to the Middle Devonian group in Gippsland. 



1876. HoAViTT (Geol. Surv., Victoria, iii., pp. 181-249) estab- 

 lished the sequence of the Devonian and Carboniferous strata in 

 North Gippsland, and introduced the Snowy River jjorphyrites as 

 Lower (?) Devonian. 



(h) Queensland. 



1847. Leichhakdt discovered fossiliferous limestone at the 

 Burdekin River, vs^hich were referred by W. B. Clarke to Upper 

 Silurian (Journ. Overland Exped.). 



1869. Aplin, in his " Report on the Upper Condamine," 

 regarded the Palaeozoic rocks on the eastern ranges of Queens- 

 land as Silurian. 



1872. Dainteee (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxvrii., p. 288) 

 regarded the greater part, especially the Burdekin and Fanning 

 River limestones, as Devonian. 



1872. Etheridge, R. fid., p. 324) massed the fossils from two 

 distinct horizons (the Middle Devonian of Burdekin Valley and 

 Gympie Series) as Siluro-Devonian. 



