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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
In the December number of this Magazine Mr. Buckman complains that the use of his term hemera has been widely misunderstood. He says that it was never intended to be used for a subdivision of a zone, but solely as a chronological term to indicate the time during which the beds composing a zone were deposited, just as the term age is now generally accepted in a technical sense to mean the time during which a stage was deposited.
page 36 note 01 The word originally suggested was emar, subsequently altered to hemera.
page 37 note 01 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlix, p. 522.
