64 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 



1880. Hector, Sir James (Proc. R03-. Soc, N.S.W., vol. xiii., 

 pp. 70, et seq.) places the Fiiuders River beds as the equivalent of 

 the Neocomian of New Zealand. 



1883. Tenisox Woods (Proc. Lin. Soc , N.S.W., vol. viii. 

 p. 55) regards the Desert Sandstone as an seolian formation of 

 Jurassic age. 



1889. Jack (Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sc, vol., i., p. 205) attaches 

 the Desert Sandstone to the Oretaceous on palaeontological evi- 

 dence, as demonstated by R. Etheridge, jun. It had been referred 

 by Daintree, <p. cit., to Cainozoic, because '■ above and unconform- 

 able to the Cretaceous of the Flinders area." 



1892. Jack and Etheridge (•' Geology of Queensland") classify 

 the Cretaceous as above tabulated. 



fbj Centred Australia. 



1849. Stxjrt (Exped. Central Aust.) records fossiliferous lime- 

 stone about Grey Range. 



1863. Waterhouse, F. G. (Pari. Paper, S.A., No. 125, pp. 

 2-3) records fossiliferous argillaceous rock in the Lake Eyre basin, 

 and refers it to Tertiary. 



1877. Tate (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xlii., p. 258) records 

 the occurrence of Bdemnites Ausfralis and other Jurassic (?) 

 fossils at Stuart Creek, Lake Eyre. 



1879. The same author (Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Aust., p. xlix.) 

 expresses the opinion that the Wollumbilla type, to which the 

 Lake Eyre fossils belong, approximates to a Cretaceous facies. 



1882. Wilkinson adds Cretaceous to his Geological Map, the 

 north-west country, embracing the western tributaries of the 

 Darling, being so colored. 



1883. Brown, H. Y. L. (Pari. Paper, South Australia, No. 

 146), colors the area between Lake Frome and Cooper Creek as 

 Cretaceou.s covered by Tertiary. 



1884. The same geologist, in his Geological Map of South Aus- 

 tralia, represents the vast area around Lake Eyre as " Mesozoic 

 (Cretaceous and Oolitic), with or without overlying Tertiary beds." 



1884. HuDDLESTONE (Geol. Mag., vol. i.. No. 8, p. 339) refers 

 some fossils from Lake Eyre basin to Mesozoic, none being abso- 

 lutely decisive of their age, but quotes Mr. Etheridge, jun., for 

 the opinion that they are Cretaceous. 



1889. Tate (Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sc, vol. i., p. 228) rectifies the 

 errors made by Moore in identifjdng certain of the Wollumbilla 



