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Miocene. — Marine sands of the Dry Creek and Croydon bores, 
South Australia. Oyster beds of the Murray Diver Cliffs and 
Aldinga Bay, South Australia, Calcareous sands and clays of 
Jemmy’s Point, Gippsland, and the upper beds at Muddy Creek, near 
Hamilton, West Victoria. 
Eocene (Marine series).— Generally limestones, clays, and sands 
from the Snowy Diver, Gippsland, to the Great Australian Bight, also 
from Geraldton to Shark’s Bay, \V estern Australia, and Table Cape, 
Tasmania. 
Sequence. 
1. Clays of the Lower Muddy Creek Type. — Occurring at Muddy 
Creek, Mornington or Schnapper Point, Lake Connewarre (Campbell’s 
Point, &c.), Southern Moorabool Valley (Pyansford, &c.), Corio Bay, 
Altona Bay (bore), Newport (shaft), Gellibrand, Camperdown 
(Gnotuk), Birregurra, Murgheboluc, Slielford, Bairnsdale (Mitchell 
Diver) . 
2. Polyzoal Limestone of the Wdurn Ponds Type. — Occurring at 
AVaurn Ponds, Batesford, Maude (upper beds), Flinders, Airey’s 
Inlet, (?) Muddy Creek. 
Clays and Limestones of the Curlewis Type. — Occurring at 
Curlewis and Belmont in the Geelong district. 
3. Older Volcanic Bock. 
4. Lower Eocene — Clays and Limestones of the Spring Creek Type . 
— Occurring at Spring Creek, near Geelong, and Maude (lower beds). 
The equivalent of this horizon in South Australia is seen in the Lower ' ' • 
Aldinga series, and in Tasmania the Table Cape beds probably occupy '* v 
a similar position. ; ) r . 
Lower Eocene or Upper Cretaceous. — The a Lower Gold Drifts” 
at Steiglitz and the Upper Moorabool Valley, Dargo High Plains, 
Tanjil, and Bussell's Creek. 
The Plant-bearing beds, as the white clays, underlying the “ Older 
Basalt ” at Flemington and Berwick, and the ferruginous beds with 
fossil flora at (?) Pentland Hills (Bacchus Marsh), Dargo and Bogong 
High Plains. The “ Lower Brown Coals” of South Gippsland as in 
the valley of the Narracan Creek, also the brown coals of the Altona 
Bay bore and the Newport shaft. 
The Darriwill quartzites and South Gippsland quartzites as at 
Ordlaw in the Narracan district. 
10.— THE DEVELOPMENT AND PEOGEESS OF MINING AND 
GEOLOGY IN QUEENSLAND. 
By WILLIAM FRYAR , Inspector of Mines , Queensland. 
It may have been observed from the title of this paper that I am 
departing somewhat from the strictly scientific aspect of the subject. 
As it is necessary, however, occasionally to look at the results 
obtained, as well as the work performed, I may be pardoned if I deal 
with it from a statistical and historical, rather than from a scientific, 
point of view. The first settlement of the shores of Moreton Bay will 
