On page 79 there is given a comparative table of tlio various strata in 
Victoria with those of New South Wales with regard to the European standard 
of strati graphical sequence. 
About the Bacchus Marsh Sandstones we find, p. 79, the following : — 
“In Mr. 11. A. C. Selwyn’s work of 1806 the Bacchus Marsh sandstones are 
classified as Upper Paleozoic, though the opinion is expressed that they 
may he younger than the Upper Paleozoic rocks at the Avon.* The Bacchus 
Marsh sandstones, however, contain fossil plant impressions, which Prof. 
M‘Coy regards as of a Triassic or Lower Mesozoic type, and they may there- 
fore he justifiably: separated from those of the Avon and Iguana Creek in 
Gippsland, whose fossil flora is distinctly Palaeozoic. At the same time the 
characteristic fossil plants of the Bacchus Marsh group have not been found 
in the rocks of the other Victorian Mesozoic areas, nor have the fossils 
common in all the latter been found in the former, and on this account the 
Bacchus Marsh sandstones are treated as representing a group distinct from 
the other Mesozoic rocks of the Colony.” 
(14.) 1886. Langtree (C. W.) and Murray (R. A. P.) Geological Collection— Specimens 
of Rocks, &C. Catalogue of Exhibits in the Victorian Court , Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London > 
1886. 21’- 151, et seq. 
(15.) 1879. Feistmantel (Dr. 0.) The Flora of the Talchir-Karharbari Beds. Fossil Flora of 
the Goudicdnu System, Vol. Ill, Fart 1. Falceontologia Indica, Ser. Fill. 
I wrote as follows (p. 31) : — “We have now to examine if there is in 
Australia perl mps another formation which could lie better compared with 
these Talchir-Karharbari beds, or at least as well as the Newcastle beds. In 
Victoria there is a scries of beds, called Bacchus Marsh sandstone, which 
contains no other fossils but Gangamopteris ; there are three species described, 
of which Gangamopteris obliqua is the most common, and Gangamopteris 
spathulata rare, while G. angnstifolia is frequent; all these arc represented 
in the Talchir-Karharbari beds, whore Gangamopteris also is the characteristic 
fossil, i.e., G. obliqua by G. eg dopier oides, G. spathulata by G . major, and 
G. angnstifolia by the same form.” 
“ It seems, therefore, that the most natural term of comparison for our 
Talchir-Karharbari beds would lie the Bacelius-Marsh sandstones ; the age of 
these strata, however, is not quite clear ; but so much appears certain that 
they are not older than the Newcastle beds (upper coal-measures) of which 
they may partly bo the representatives.” 
* If here is meant the work “Notes on the Physical Geography, Geology, &c., by Selwyn and Ulrich,” 
then the above statement is not quite correct. Selwyn, it is true, speaks of the Bacchus Marsh sandstones under 
the heading of Upper Pakeozoic, but distinctly says, on p. 16, that they are probably Triassic or Lower Mesozoic, 
