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ON" THE EVIDENCE (SO-CALLED) OF GLACIER 

 ACTION ON MOUNT KOSCIUSKO PLATEAU. 



By the Rev. J. Milne Curran, Lecturer in Geology, 

 Technical College. 



(Plates xxxvii.-xxxix.) 



[Read in abstract November 25th, 1806 (P.L.S.N.S.W. 1896, 

 p. 819); but publication deferred to allow of the author's again . 

 visiting Mount Kosciusko.] 



In January, 1885, Dr. R. von Lendenfeld made a visit to 

 Mount Kosciusko. Shortl}' af terwai'ds he issued a Report* dated 

 21st of January, 1885, and addressed to the Minister for Mines, 

 in which he states that he found " rocks pohshed by Glacial 

 Action "t in many places. Sometime afterwards he jDublished a 

 paper entitled " The Glacial Period in Australia.":]: Dr. Lenden- 

 feld comes to the conclusion that Glaciers extended from a high 

 Plateau, Mount Kosciusko — down into the valleys around ; he 

 noted that in these valleys " most beautiful and indubitable traces 

 of glacial action ":§ that evidences of Glaciation were "found in 

 the shape of Roches Aloutonnces scattered over an area of one 

 hundred square miles. "|| There can be no doubt Dr. Lendenfeld 

 is referring to a Post-Tertiary Glaciation, for he adds, " that 

 portion of Australia was, therefore, not so long ago, certainly 

 covered with ice."1] More recently Mr. Richard Helms accepted 



* Report by Dr. R. von Lendenfeld on the I'esults of his recent examina- 

 tion of the central part of the Australian Alps. Sydney. Thos. Richards, 

 Government Printer. 1885. 



t Dr. Lendenfeld's Report, p. 10. 



X Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (1st Series), Vol. x. p. 48. 



§ Loc. cit., p. 47. 



II Loc. cit., p. 50. 



IT Loc. cit., p. 50. 



