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On the Tertiary Deposits of Australia. 
By Rev. J. E. Tenrson-Woops, F.G.S., Hon. Mem. Roy. Soc. 
N. 8. Wales, Hon. Mem . Roy. Soe. Victoria, Tasmania, and 
Linnean Soc. N. 8. Wales, Adelaide Phil. Soc. &e. 
[Read before the Royal Society ees N.S.W., 4 July, 1877.) 
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of New § South Wales. Owing ‘eo ga very scidlenes development 
of the palxozoic, metamorphic, and volcanic rocks on the eastern 
cordillera of our continent, the tertiary formations have escaped 
ustralia cover at least a fourth part of ‘ts surface. e 
interest they possess, not =o for ourselves but urope, can 
ar as they have been. studied er 
ms Lor of the present state of Australian tertiary geology. Such 
an epitome g been wanted, not only by men of science 
but by the public generally. e time is not far distant, let us 
hope, when a eau ile gers of A geology can 
sufficient, or nearly sufficient 
While a awaiting “this, nck I here nate the notice of t 
Society may serve as a contribution to the subject, and I am 
encouraged to the task by the fact that most of what I shall state 
is new to the c ublie. 
Before I refer to what has been done, I beg to draw attention 
of various ages; but their nature and position have not been 
‘endied- : : 
all 
attention of sp in Australia. This has not been owing 
alone to the special attractions they must ever have and the 
erg for their study, but also because no satisfactory attempt 
the correlation of strata can ever be made until something 
iike a ae has been established by fossils of the relative position 
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the following paper, which I intend as a brief 
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