68 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 



Newer Pliocene or Pleistocene. 



1886. Dennant, J. (Trans. Roy. Soc, Vict.), describes beds in 

 Soutb-Western Victoria containing about 2U per cent, of extinct 

 species. 



1884. Brown, H. L. Y. (Geol. Map of S. Aiist.), colors as Lower 

 Tertiary a large area in tbe south-east of the province wbicb is 

 certainly not older than Pleistocene. 



INTERCALATED IGNEOUS ROCKS. 

 L. OR M. Devonian. 

 Tbe Snowy River felstone porphyrites, felstone asb, and agglome- 

 rates are described, and their stratigraphical position is assigned by 

 Howitt, A. W. (Geol. Surv., Victoria, Report 3, 1876). 



M. Devonian. 

 Felsite breccias and felsite tuffs with a compact sheet of compact 

 felsite and one of basalt are described by Howitt, A. W. (op. cit. 

 Report No. 5, p. 117), as interstratified with the Buchan lime- 

 stones. 



U. Devonian. 



Interbedded melaphyres beneath tbe Avon River sandstone are 

 described by Howitt. 



Permo-Carboniferous. 



Diabasic and felsitic tuffs, together with sheets of felsitic and 

 diabasic basalt, are interstratified with tbe Rhacopteris beds in 

 New South Wales (David, Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sc, vol. iv., p. 67, 

 1893), and agglomerates and dolerites in the Lower Bowen Series 

 in Queensland (Jack. Geol. Queensland, p. 145). 



Volcanic lavas and tuffs in tbe Greta Coal Measures, in the 

 Illawarra coalfield ; lavas of the Canobolas, near Orange ; those 

 near Rylstone and in the Murrundi District — all in New South 

 Wales. (David, op. cit., pp. 68-70). 



Hawkesbury Series. 

 Volcanic tuffs at various horizons (David, op. cit., p. 70). 



Ipswich Coal Measures. 

 Volcanic asb-bed in neighborhood of Brisbane (Jack, op. cit., 

 p. 321). 



Carbonaceous Series, Victoria. 

 Mr. A. W. Howitt records tuffaceous beds, teste David fop. 

 cit., p. 71). 



