76 ON THE TERTIARY DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA, 
is and similar discoveries showed the im- 
oseibility of eee Australian and English strata on purely 
ontological r. J. 8. Gardiner remarke , in connec- 
— with the aa ae of cretaceous forms still living in modern 
times, that American cretaceous beds may be like our eocene. 
If a 1 Bel emnite lived on into the tertiary period, this might give 
uite another reading to those a ceo cretaceous beds, whose 
termination rests mainly upon their flora r. A. W. Waters 
— cam: to the ecretaceous forms which had outlived the 
8 period. 
Belemni 
tertiary, the evidence must "be considered incomplete. These 
Belemnites were like liassic forms, but very unlike those dis- 
e Rev. J 
cove Vv . Blake said that Professor 
Tate’s m re like oolitic than cretaceous form 
and they certainly did not belong to the genus Belemnitella 
e ing on of cretaceous forms into oe times favours 
form iti beds, a 
tinuous succession of life in rip than in Havope: Profes- 
sor Rupert Jones said that in 1857 Belemnites found in a tertiary 
deposit north-west of Germany were exhibited at the meeting of 
the Naturalists’ Association at Bonn. Professor Seeley remarked 
that it was impossible from the material before the Society to 
determine the species to which the Belemnite belonged. The 
characte e i 
rican cretaceous shells to those of the English tertiaries. 
Professor Duncan reminded Mr. Blake that there is a sharply 
defined cretaceous formation in Australia. 
If I should venture to suggest anything in this matter, it 
would be that our-tertiary formations are older than the period 
hitherto assigned to them. I do not rr eitherthat our cretaceous 
formation, which is near the equ uator an remote from these beds, 
that the southern analogues would be so very different from our 
lower tertiary beds, though I am far from saying that they would 
be the ric ar may, however, be nearer to each other than is 
at t 
rachnoides parte Lovenia Forbesi sit). en are well 
known forms of the Murray River beds, and perhaps they occupy 
