58 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 



1879. Feistmantel, Dr. O. (Foss. Flora, Gondwana System, 

 vol. III., pt. I,, p.p. 31-32), regards the Bacchus Marsh sandstones as 

 the representatives of the Upper Coal Measures of Newcastle. 



1886. Oedham, R. D. (Rec. Geol. Surv., India, vol. xix ),. 

 correlates the conglomerates with the Talchirs of India and the 

 Carboniferous marine beds of New South Wales. 



H. AVON river sandstones. 



1861. McCoy (Vict. Exh. Essays) correlates them, on palaeonto- 

 logical evidence, with Carboniferous " or passage beds in that 

 direction from the Upper Devonian," adding that the limits of the 

 Upper Devonian and Carboniferous are not clear where they occur 

 in superposition, there being an insensible gradation from one to 

 the other. 



1867. McCoy (Intercol. Exh. Essays, p. 327) says that the sand- 

 stones were the onl)' ti'aces of the Carboniferous formation which 

 he could recognise in Victoria. 



1892. Jack (Geol. and Pal. of Queensland, p. 142) says the 

 Lepidodendron beds of the Avon River may be approximately on the 

 horizon of the Star Series of Queensland. 



(d) West Australia. 



1841. Grey, Lieutenant, discovered Carboniferous rocks in the 

 Victoria Range (" Two Exped.," &,c.) 



1849. SoMMER traced the coal formation from the head of the 

 Irwin to Moore River, 160 miles, and noted the absence of lime- 

 stone (Quart. Jouni. Geol. Soc, vol. v., pp. 51-53). 



1857. Gregory, A. C, states the coal formation to occur in 

 four areas, between the Irwin and Murchison Rivers and in another 

 to the east of King George Soimd (Trans. Phil. Soc, Victoria). 



1861. Gregory, F. T., showed that the Carboniferous to the 

 north of Irwin River is overlain by Mesozoic strata (Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc, vol. xvii.) 



1876. Smyth, Brough, remarks that no rocks of Carboniferous 

 age had been discovered in West Australia (Geol. Surv. Victoria, 

 Report III., p. 61). 



1884. Hardman reported a large development of Carboniferous 

 rocks in the Kimberley district, namely. Carboniferous Limestone 

 of about 4,000ft. thick and containing marine fossils, overlain by 

 Carboniferous sandstone of about 1,000ft., yielding Palaeozoic 

 plants (Pari. Paper, W.A., No. 31, pp. 8-10). 



