INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 69 



Desert Sandstone. 

 Basaltic lavas and tuffaceous beds of insignificant thickness 

 occur in this formation in Queensland (Jack, Geol., Queensland, 

 p. 517). 



Pre-Eocene. 

 The older basalts of Southern "Victoria, previously referred to 

 Miocene, have been sho^\^l by Tate and Dennant to be Pre-Eocene 

 (Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Aust., vol. xvii., p. 212, 1893), 



Eocene. 

 The Eocene flora at Vegetable Creek, in the district of New 

 England, New South Wales, is buried under contemporaneous lava 

 and tuff (David, Geol. Survey, N.S.W, Memoir, 1887, p. 25 

 et seq.J. 



Post-Pliocene. 



The newer basalts and ash beds of Victoria ; the ash beds of 

 the Mount Ganibier area. South Australia (David, Assoc. Adv. 

 Sc, vol. IV., p. 73, teste Tate) overlie deposits of the Diprotodon 

 Period. 



