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and the Astrolabe Range, and, according to the data given me by 
officers of H.jVLSL “Basilisk,” nearRedscar Head, at an elevation 
of 100 feet. I consider these beds to be Miocene also. 
There are also junks of fossil-wood with thin veins of calespar. 
It may be well, in conclusion of this section, to allude to the 
facts pointed out in the previous parts, relating to the occurrence 
of genera and species in formations older than those in which 
they may usually occur. 
In reference to such a contingency in Tertiary strata of Aus¬ 
tralia, the Rev. Mr. Woods in one of his papers seems to hesi¬ 
tate as to the passage into the Tertiaries from the Cretaceous, 
at the time of writing, he having seen no good grounds for the 
admission of sucli an occurrence. But since the date of that 
paper History of Austr. Tert. Gcol.f read before Roy. 8oc. Tas., 
11th July, 1870], we find his admission \ u Jonrn. Roy . Soc. 
JV. S. W.y xi., 75, 1877] of two genera of generally considered 
Mesozoic ago having been found in the acknowledged Middle 
Tertiary strata of Aldinga, in South Australia — species each of 
JBelcmnifes and Balenia — discovered by Professor Tate [See Q. J. Cx.S. 
Feb. 7, 1S77, xxx., p. 20G.] He adds, that though Salenia was 
considered to be extinct, and a characteristic of Mesozoic form, 
“ a living species was dredged up by the “ Challenger.’ ” 
Dr. Duncan, President of the Geological Society, remarked 
on the interest attached to the discovery of the Belemnite, 
which “ added another to the curious examples of the survivors 
of older forms of life in Australia.” As he expressed it, it was 
another of the Cretaceous forms “ which had outlived the Cre- 
tjiceous period. This and similar discoveries showed the impos¬ 
sibility ot comparing Australian and English strata on purely 
Palaeontological data.” Other speakers confirmed the occur¬ 
rence of such an apparent anomaly by facts from other localities. 
Air. AY oods does not, however, think the doctrine of evolution 
can he sustained from Australian evidences, and has an explana¬ 
tion of his own, not revealed. 
He says, further, that “ during more than twenty years of 
researches in Australian Tertiary geology I have sought for any 
reasonable evidence in favour of evolution, or clue to its mode of 
operation, and have found none whatever. I must add, that 
Australian geology, whether reluctantly or not, must admit that 
she can urge nothing in favour of that theory being true, the true 
explanation of nature as we find it.” 
