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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
Those who have attempted a geological exploration of a new country can best appreciate the difficulties which must be overcome by the geologist, and the value of every scrapof fossil evidence met with, however fragmentary, which may serve as an indication of the probable horizon of the strata around him
page 289 note 1 See Review of Report by Government Geologist, Geol. Mag. 1884, p. 29. See also Notes on Mollusca from S. Australia, op. cit. p. 339, PI. XI., and on Trilobites, p. 342. Also Annual Report to 31 Dec. 1883, by Brown, H. Y. L., op. cit. 1885, pp. 41–43.Google Scholar
page 289 note 2 See A. R. C. Selwyn's Report on Palæozoic area, Parliamentary Papers for S. Australia, 1859, No. 20.
page 289 note 3 See E. H. Hargrave's Report on same area, Parliamentary Papers, No. 96, 1864.
page 290 note 1 Some of the specimens are labelled “Mt. Adams.” Is Mt. Adams synonymous with Mt. Babbage ? This is a point which should be cleared up.
page 291 note 1 Is Mount Adams the same place as Mount Babbage ?.
page 292 note 1 Twenty-two specimens sent in from Gammon range are inorganic concretions. Some have been cut open with the circular saw, but they yield no information to repay the investigator. The matrix looks like a Palæozoic rock.
page 292 note 2 And ? Mount Adams.
page 292 note 3 The late Mr. Moore, Charles F. G. S., in his paper on Australian Mesozoic Geology and Palæontology (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1870, vol. xxvi. pp. 226–261, pi. x.–xviii.), speaks of Cretaceous beds, but his paper does not aid our present inquiry.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
