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THE issue of an index to the Reports of the Geological Survey of New Zealand, from 1866 to 1885 inclusive, enables us to see at a glance how large an amount of valuable material has been accumulated by the staff of this Survey, under its accomplished and energetic Director, Sir James Hector. Several editions of the useful geological map of the colony have appeared, the latest dated 1885; and the volumes containing the yearly reports of progress are now eighteen in number. Monographs on the palæontology of New Zealand are stated to be in preparation, and there are, besides these, museum and laboratory reports, meteorological returns, and miscellaneous publications. The difficulties felt in correlating the strata of so isolated an area as New Zealand with the rocks of other districts must always be very great, and it is therefore not surprising to find that warm and animated discussions are taking place among the different geologists of the colony as to the age and relations of some of the fossiliferous deposits. We may feel assured that the solution of these questions will be fraught with important results having a direct bearing upon some of the most difficult problems that now confront geologists.
Reports of the Geological Survey of New Zealand.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 38, 53 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038053a0
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