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1840. Coal of excellent quality discovered at Western Port (Proc. 

 Geol. Soc, HI., p. 495). 



1846. Stokes ("Discoveries in Australia") considers the Cape 

 Patterson and Western Port Coal Measures analogous to those of 

 the Carbonifero'is. 



1850. Jukes ("Physical Struct.") regards the coal-bearing 

 formation about Western Port and west of Geelong as Palaeozoic. 



1858. Selwyn (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, xiv.) regards the 

 series as Oolitic (?). 



1861. McCoy and Selwyn (Victorian Exhib. Essays, pp. 165 et 

 186) place the plant-bearing beds at Cape Patterson and Bellerine 

 in the Mesozoic. 



1867. Selwyn (Intercol. Exh. Essays, p. J 64) reiterates his 

 conviction that they are newer than Palaeozoic, and may be 

 representative of the Wianamatta shales of New South Wales. 



1867, Clarke (Intercol. Exh. Essays, p. 389) is disposed to 

 place the Victorian Carbonaceous Series above the Wianamatta 

 shales. 



fcj Coal Series of LeigJis Creek^ South Australia. 

 1889. Brown (Pari. Paper, S.A.) refers them, with a doubt, to 

 Cretaceous. 



1891. Etheridge, Jun. (Pari. Paper, S.A., No. 168, p. 9), 

 places them under Lower Mesozoic (see also loc. cit., No. 50, p. 8, 

 1893). 



fdj Trias-Jura, of Queensland. 



1892. Messrs. Jack and Etheridge ("Geol. Queensland"') 

 classify the Lower Mesozoic into (i.) Burrum Coal Formation, and 

 (ii.) Ipswich C'oal Measures. 



I. BURRUM COAL FORMATION. 



1870. Gregory, A. C, reports on the Burrum coalfield 

 (Rep., &c.). 



1872. Daintree (Quart. Journ., Gool. Soc, vol. xxviii., pp. 

 283-284) includes this formation with the Ipswich coal series 

 under Mesozoic. 



1870. Gregory, A. C, reports on this series as developed at 

 Wide Bay and Burnett River (Report Geology of). 



1883. Tenison Woods (Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W., vol. viii., p]). 

 53-54) places the Burrum coal formation as U. Lias (?), beneath 

 the Ipswich coal series, and above those of the Burnett River which 

 he classed as Rhajtic or L. Lias. 



