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"ment. We are also indebted to Dr. Taylor for a map and a 

 "relief model of the area." 



The general lack of knowledge on the subject of past 

 glacial action in Tasmania, and the necessity of a general 

 survey of our present information on the subject both 

 recorded and unrecorded, is illustrated by a statement 

 published by no less an authority than Professor Walter 

 Howchin, F.G.S., of the University of Adelaide, in the Official 

 Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, No. 13 of 

 1920, at page 1,135, of which the learned author says: "(c) 

 "Glaciers of Tasmania — No expedition for the specific object 

 "of investigating the Pleistocene Glacial remains has been 

 "undertaken, but incidental observations bearing on the 

 "subject have been made by several travellers who were 

 "visiting the country in pursuit of other objects .... 

 "etc." 



The actual state of affairs is that this subject has been 

 largely written upon by all our Government geologists and 

 most of our outstanding geological observers. In the Papers 

 and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1916, 

 Dr. W. N. Benson, at the end of his paper on the geological 

 features of the Cradle Mountain district, at page 40, 

 published a "Bibliography of Pleistocene Glaciation in 

 Tasmania," containing 45 references. Of these, twelve (viz., 

 references Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 25, 33, 35, 43, 44, and 45) 

 are detailed and extended accounts of the glacial phenomena 

 within the area described, the remainder being references to 

 the occurrence of such phenomena. Also, it is far from the 

 truth to suggest that these observations were made by 

 "travellers who were visiting the country in pursuit of other 

 "objects." Only nine of the references (viz. Nos. 4, 7, 14, 

 15, 24, 25, 28, 29, and 41) were written by gentlemen who 

 were not domiciled Tasmanians. In the recently published 

 R. M. Johnston Memorial volume one paper by the late Mr. 

 Johnston on the Pleistocene Glacial Epoch extends over 80 

 pages. 



For the sake of completeness, and for the benefit of 

 anyone studying this subject, I should like to add the 

 following references to Professor Benson's bibliography: — 



10. 1893. R. M. Johnston. "The Glacial Epoch of Austral- 

 asia," Proc. Roy. Sec. Tas., 1893, republished R. 

 M. Johnston Memorial volume, 1921, pp. 16-96. 



19a. 1894. E. J. Dunn. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict, (new series), 

 Vol. VI. (1894), pp. 133-138. 



