66 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 



1845. Strzelecki (Physical Descript., &c.) classifies the Eocene 

 polyzoal limestone at Port Fairy as a raised beach. 



1854. SfiLWYN (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, p. 169) considers the 

 fossils at Schnapper Point to resemble those of the Paris basin and 

 Tjondon clay. 



1859. Selwyn (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xvi., p. 147) 

 provisionally adopts the following classification of the Tertiaries 

 [Eocene] in Victoria : 3. Newer Pliocene. — Flemington red 

 Tertiaries, marine (like the Red Crag). 5. Miocene — Corio Bay, 

 Cape Otway Coast, Murray Basin, and Lower Brighton beds. 

 6. Eocene— East Shore of Port Phillip, Muddy Creek, &c. 



1859. Tegison Woods (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xvi., p. 

 259) describes the Mount Gambler limestone, and thinks the forma- 

 tion of an Eocene character. Busk fid., p. 260) regards the jDolyzoa 

 as indicating an age equivalent to the Coralline Crag of England. 



1861. McCoy (Vict. Exh. Essays, p. 168) believes the Geelong 

 beds to be Lower Miocene and those at Schnapper Point to be Upper 

 Eocene [afterwards altered to Oligocene in accordance with revised 

 classification of the Older Tertiary of Europe]. 



1862. Tenison Woods (Geol. Obs., S. Aust., p. 82) compares 

 the fossils of the Mount Gambler limestone with those of the 

 European Upper Eocene and Lower Miocene. 



1865. Tenison Woods (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxi. p. 

 393) regards the Mount Gambler limestone as not so modern as the 

 Coralline Crag, but yovinger than the Muddy Creek beds, and the 

 Murray River beds as of intermediate age. 



1868. Selwyn (Descrip. Cat. Nat. Museum) classes the rocks of 

 Bird Rock Bluff as Upper Miocene and Lower Miocene, and 

 correlates the Mount Gambler series with Upper Miocene (p. 55) ; 

 the clays at Schnapper Point are classeil as probably Upper Eocene, 

 (p. 56), the Flemington fossiliferous sandstones as Older Pliocene 

 and the limestones of Moorabool River as Miocene (p. 61). 



1872. Smyth, R. B. (Vict. Exh. Essays, p. 13) refers the 

 fossiliferous beds at the Glenelg River and near Camperdown to 

 Miocene. 



1874. McCoy (Geol. Surv. Vict., Report No. 2, p. 72) places 

 the Bairnsdale limestone as " Middle Eocene, such as Corio Bay 

 and Bird Rock, Geelong." Howitt (id., p. 62) uses the phrase 

 Middle Tertiary. 



1876. Smyth, R. B., and McCoy (Geol. Surv. Vict., Report 3, 

 p. 81) provisionally adopt the following divisions [of what is 



