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Founders of the Geological Survey of Victoria " (with portraits), 

 by E. J. Dunn, F.G.S., Director, with Bibliography by D. J. 

 Mahony, M.Sc, F.G.S. ; the other being Memoirs No. 9, " The 

 Geology of the Camperdown and Mount Elephant Districts, 

 Western Victoria," by H. J. Grayson, Geological Laboratory, 

 Melbourne University, and D. J. Mahony, M.Sc, F.G.S. 



In the former Mr. E. J. Dunn has rendered a valuable 

 service in briefly recording the official life of the various persons 

 who helped to make the old geological survey of Victoria one of 

 the most famous in the world. Mr. A. R. C. Selvvyn, the founder 

 of the survey, did yeoman service for Victoria, traversing it in 

 the early days from end to end, and laying down such a sure 

 foundation that later geologists have had little to undo. One need 

 only glance at the list of his reports and maps to see what a great 

 man he was. Perhaps no country in the world had such master 

 minds working in it at the same time as Victoria had in the 

 sixties, when Selwyn, Mueller, and M'Coy were busy smoothing 

 the paths of their successors. The other men dealt with by Mr. 

 Dunn are Richard Daintree, Christopher D'O. H. Aplin, Norman 

 Taylor, G. H. F. Ulrich, C. S. Wilkinson, R. A. F. Murray, H. 

 Y. L. Brown, R. Etheridge, jun., C. S. Wood, and J. Cosmo 

 Newbery. Mr. Mahony's share of the bulletin has been no light 

 work — for instance, Selwyn's publications require seven pages to 

 list them, while Murray's extend to over nine pages. The 

 bulletin will save future workers many weary hours of search 

 should they require information on any particular district. 



In the second publication under notice, which is descriptive 

 of the Geological Quarter-sheet Maps, No. S N.E and 17 S.E. 

 (new series), published some time ago, Messrs. Grayson and 

 Mahony have done equally good work. The area dealt with is 

 almost in the centre of the great basaltic area of Western Victoria 

 which covers some 9,000 square miles, and with the exception of 

 the Snake River Plains in the United States, and the Deccan 

 Plateau in India, is the largest similar area in the world. It is 

 unfortunate that a locality plan was not included in the memoir, 

 so that the reader could follow the writers' remarks in the 

 absence of the Quarter Sheets, which have not been sent out with 

 it. The area is an interesting one, seeing that it contains a 

 number of the so-called " crater lakes," the mode of origin of 

 which has been a debatable point. Lists of the fossils and 

 foraminifera met with are given, and full petrographical notes, 

 with a list of the minerals. The memoir is well illustrated with 

 plates detailing various features and many fine micro-sections 

 of the various basalts, &c. 



A COURSE of eighteen University Extension lectures on "The 

 Bacteriology of Everyday Life " will be commenced by Dr. R. 

 J. Bull at the University on Wednesday evening, loth August. 

 Tickets for the series, one guinea. 



