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1892. Jack (Geol. and Pal. of Queensland, ii., p. 45) correlates 

 the Devonian of Queensland with the Bindi and Buchan limestones 

 of Gippsland. 



( c) West Australia. 



1890. FooRD, Nicholson, and Hinde, Messrs. (Geol. Mag.), 

 determined a suite of fossils from Mount Pierre, near Fitzroy 

 River, Kimberley District, to belong to Devonian. 



[The conglomerates capping the Darling Range, and doubtfully 

 referred to Devonian by F. T. Gregory (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 

 1861, p. 475), may be Mesozoic, as suggested by R. Etheridge 

 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxviii., p. 320, 1872).] 



UPPER DEVONIAN. 

 fa) Victoria. 



1867. Selwyn (Intercol. Exh. Essays, p. 160) refers the 

 Iguana Creek beds to an age inferior to the Bindi limestones. 



1874. McCoy (Geol. Surv., Vict., Report ii., p. 73) determines 

 them, on the evidence of the fossil plants, as Upper Devonian. 



1876. HowTiT (Geol. Surv., Vict) shows that they are superior 

 and unconformable to the Bindi limestones, and inferior to, but 

 conformable with, the Avon River sandstones. The stratigraphical 

 position of the Mount Tambo beds is for the first time shown to be 

 Upper Devonian. 



(h) New South Wales. 



1875-8. WiLKiNsox, C. S. (Philadelphia Exh. Essays, 1875, 

 p. 134 ; Report Depart. Mines. New South Wales, for 1877), 

 describes the Rydal section as pi-esenting a thickness of not less 

 than 10,000ft., and states that, though classed as Devonian, its 

 stratigraphical horizon is not definitely known. 



1887. Wilkinson, C. S. (Geol. of New South Wales, p. 56), 

 holds the same opinion. 



1892. Ross, Clunies (Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sc, vol. iv., p. 336), 

 <^oasiders that in the neighborhood of Bathurst Lepidodendron 

 Australe was probably of Devonian age. 



1893. PiTTMAN, E. F., and David, T. W. E. (Proc. Lin. Soc, 

 New South Wales, p. 121), announce the discovery in the neigh- 

 Tjorhood of Mount Larabie of a species of Lepidodendron below 

 marine beds with Spirifera disjuncta. [This species — a Devonian, 

 fossil in Europe — was first indicated as Australian by Stutchbury 

 (Geol. Surv. Report, No. 10, p. 8, 1853).] 



