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III.— Comparison of the New South Wales Permo-Carboniferous 
Foraminiferal Horizons with those of Tasmania and West 
Australia. 
(a) Tasmania . — The first Eoraminifera of Permo-Carboniferous Age 
discovered in Australasia were recorded from Tasmania by T. Rupert 
Jones p Mr. W. S. Dim lias kindly called my attention to this notice. 
Later, Mr. T. Stephens, M.A., E.G.S., of Hobart, briefly referred to some 
Eoraminifera of the above age found by himself in Tasmania. Subsequently 
these Eoraminifera were described by Mr. Walter Ilowchin, E.G.S., now 
Lecturer in Geology and Palaeontology at Adelaide University . 1 2 The locality 
is the Piper River, and is distant about fifteen miles easterly from Launceston. 
The Eoraminifera are preserved in a dark calcareous mudstone of Permo- 
Carboniferous Age. As the Greta Coal-Measures, though developed west of 
Launceston, at Latrobe, are not known to exist at the Piper River, it is 
difficult to determine whether that horizon should be referred to the Upper 
or to the Lower Marine Scries of the Permo-Carboniferous System . 3 At no 
great distance below the Piper River Eoraminiferal Horizon, glacial beds are 
met with on a grand scale. The latter have already been described in the 
papers referred to below . 4 
Erratics, transported by floating ice, are also found in great numbers in 
Tasmania, as near Hobart, and at Maria Island, Peppermint Bay , 5 etc., on a 
horizon which is, perhaps, higher than that of the Piper River foraminiferal 
mudstone. 
( b ) West Australia . — One of the most interesting sections showing 
the stratigraphical relations of a foraminiferal limestone of, perhaps, 
1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Foss. Foram., 1882, p. 6. 
2 Rept., Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sei., 1893, V, pp. 344-348, pis. x-xi. 
3 Since Nubecularia stephensi is restricted to the Lower Marine' Series in N. S. Wales, and is also 
abundant in the Piper River beds, it is very probable that the two beds are at or near the same geological 
horizon. — (F. C. and IV. H.) 
1 Rept. Austr. Asssoc. Adv. Sci., IX, Report of Glacial Committee, p. 193. See also A. E. Kitson, Proc 
R. Soc. Viet., 1902, XV (n.s.), Ft. i, pp. 28-35, t. 3. 
5 E. G. Hogg. — The Glacial Beds of Little Peppermint Bay, Tasmania. Papers R. Soc. Tas. for 1900-01, 
pp. 45-47. 
