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recognised Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, or Pleistocene (including recent) 
deposits of Europe and other countries ; the terms being applied here, 
however, simply to denote Lower, Middle, Upper, and Recent Tertiaries, 
rather than either exact synchronism with European beds or any 
ascertained relative percentage of living and extinct forms in their 
fossil contents.” 
In 1868 the same author wrote a Descriptive Catalogue of the 
Hock Specimens and Minerals in the National Museum collected by 
the Geological Survey of Victoria, and includes, besides an immense 
amount of valuable information, a comparative tabular arrangement 
between the British and Victorian stratified rocks. 
Mr. R. Brough Smyth, in 1873, # gives a tabular view with litho- 
logical description of the then known principal deposits representing 
the main divisions of the Tertiary. He follows Sir F. McCoy in 
regarding Schnapper Point or Mornington as Oligocene and as the 
lowest beds of the Tertiary series. 
In 1874 the First Progress Report of the Geological Survey of 
Victoria was issued by Mr. R. Brough Smyth, then Secretary for 
Mines, and in it is included a list of Victorian Tertiary fossils fur- 
nished by Sir F. McCoy. This listf contains thirty-two species under 
the head of Oligocene (Schnapper Point), thirty-five species under 
Miocene, and thirteen species under Pliocene and Post-Pliocene, and 
is the only one I am aware of that has been published by Sir F. 
McCoy. Further remarks on this I will defer till dealing with the 
basis of classification for Tertiary beds. Included in this volume is a 
report written in 1873 by Mr. F. M. Krause on the country between 
Jan Juc and Apollo Bav,J in which he regards the coastal Tertiaries 
there as of Miocene age. In the same year Professor G. H. F. Ulrich 
published a valuable Descriptive Catalogue of the Bocks of Victoria, 
with important geological notes, § in which he closely adheres to the 
previous work done by Sir A. B. C. Selwyn. 
In 1875 Mr. A. W. Howitt gives us much valuable information 
on the stratigraphical relationship of the Tertiaries of Gippsland.|[ 
In 1876 the Bev. J. E. T. Woods, in speaking of the Table Cape 
fossils, states : “Though some of the shells, as far as yet known, are 
peculiar to the Table Cape beds, and many of the corals, yet the 
majority of the fossils are identical with those of the Australian 
so-called Miocene, and undoubtedly belonging to the same sea.” 
During the same year Mr. R. A. F. Murray, reporting on the Geology 
and Mineral Resources of South-western Gippsland ## under the head 
of I ertiaries, remarks as follows: — “As pointed out in Mr. Brough 
Smyth s Progress Report for 1874, the insufficiency of our palaeonto- 
logical evidence prohibits the absolute identification of the Tertiaries of 
this country with their supposed European equivalents, and the terms 
Miocene and Pliocene are here merely used provisionally as applied to 
the Tertiaries of Gippsland to express the relations of the beds to one 
another.” 
* Internat. Exhib., 1873. Essay on Mining and Mineral Statistics, pp. 12 and 13. 
t -Jgog. Kep. Geo. Surv. Via, vol. i., p. 33 ; and Pari. Papers, 1874, vol. ii. , p. 21. 
+ Id. Appendix A, p. 99. 
§ Report of the Trustees of Public Library. Pari. Papers, 1874, vol. ii. 
|| 1 rog. Rep. Geo. Surv. Vic., vol. ii., p. 59 et seq. 
1[ Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876, p. 92. 
** Prog. Rep. Geo. Surv. Vic., vol. iii., p. 146. 
