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In a report* * * § two years later Sir A. It. C. Selwyn recognises 
equivalents of Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene, and Eocene in Victoria, 
and records several genera from the Eocene beds. Mr. William 
Blandowski was also early in the field, as his reportf was written in 
December, 1854, though it does not appear to have been published till 
1857. He records the occurrence of several genera of cephalopoda, 
gastropods, lamellibranchs, and polyzoa from the beds near Mount 
Martha, and states as his opinion that they belong “to the Upper 
Tertiary formation, and coeval with the uppermost strata of the 
London, the Paris, Vienna, and different Italian clay basins.*’ 
In 1859 the llev. J. E. Tenison AV^oodsJ describes the Tertiary 
rocks of the Mount Gambier district, and regards the polyzoal lime- 
stone there as of Eocene age ; subsequently § he advocates a younger 
age, aud thinks the beds will eventually prove identical with the 
Coralline Crag at home, but later still || he thinks the beds older than 
the Coralline Crag, but younger than the Muddy Creek beds. 
In 1861T[ Sir 1\ McCoy stated bis belief that the beds between 
Mount Eliza and Mount Martha were Upper Eocene, though the 
term Oligocene is now used by him instead, to be in accord with the 
later classification adopted in Europe. In the same publication** * * §§ Sir 
A. B. C. Selwyn retains the same subdivision of the Tertiary rocks of 
Victoria as that indicated by him in 1856. In 1865 Mr. C. S. Wilkin- 
son reported on the country between Apollo Bay and the Gellibrand 
Biver,ft and was, I believe, the first to investigate these coastal 
deposits, and to obtain fossils from the latter locality, which he 
regarded as Miocene. In 1866, in his essay on the Recent Zoology 
and Palaeontology of Victoria, and under the heading of Miocene 
Period, Sir E. McCoy states : “ These have the general facies and 
even specific identity of so many species so clearly marked that there 
cannot be the slightest doubt of the great thickness of those beds 
being Lower Miocene of the date and general character of the Faluns 
of Touraine, the Bordeaux and the Malta beds ; while the base of the 
series blends imperceptibly with a series of beds having a slightly 
older facies, and rendering the adoption of the Oligocene formation of 
Beyrich as convenient for Victorian as for European geologists.” 
In the same publication Sir A. 11. C. Selwyn, in his essay on the 
Geology of Victoria, §§ states of our Tertiary beds : u They include 
groups of strata of earth, loam, sand, clay, gravel, conglomerate, fer- 
ruginous and calcareous sandstone and grits, hard quartz rock, marble, 
aud other kinds of limestone, and various volcanic products, each of 
which has its more or less distinctive geological, palaeontological, or 
mineral character, indicating it to be truly representative of the 
* Report on the Geological Structure of the colony of Victoria, the Basin of the 
Yarra, and part of the northern, north-eastern, and eastern Drainage of Western Port 
Bay. “ Votes and Proceedings, ” Legislative Council, 1855-56, vol. ii. 
f Report II. to the Hon. the Surveyor-General. On an excursion to Erankston, 
Balcomb’s Creek, Mount Martha, Port Phillip Heads, and Cape Schanck. Phil. Trans. 
Tie., vol. i., 1857, p. 24 el seq. 
£ Q..J.G.S., vol. xvi., p. 253 et seq. 
§ Geo. Obs. in S. Austr., 1862, pp. 85, 86. 
|| Q.J.G.S., 1865, vol. xxi., p. 393. 
IT Exhibition essays, 1861, p. 159. 
** Id. p. 181. , .. 
ft Pari. Papers, 1865, map in Pari. Papers, 1866, second session, vol. n. 
Et Exhibition essays, 1866, p. 322 or p. 17. 
§§ Id. p. 165 or p. 21. 
