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cial reports, Selwyn prepared the following reports and papers bearing 

 more especially on the economic resources of Australasia: 



" On the Geology and Mineralogy of Mount Alexander and the 

 adjacent country lying between the rivers Lodden and Campaspe." 

 Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc, Vol. X, pp. 298-303, 1854, London. 



" Report on the Geological relations of some of the coal seams of 

 Van Diemen's Land, their probable extent and relative économie value.'' 

 Van Diemen's Land Eoyal Society papers. III, pp. 116-141, 1855-1859. 



" On the Geology of the Gold Fields of Victoria." Quar. Jour. 

 Geological Soc, Vol. XIV, pp. 533-38, London, 1858, and Geologist, 

 Vol. I, pp. 163-4, 1858. 



" Notes on the Geology of Victoria." Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc, 

 Vol. XVI, pp. 145-50, 1860. 



" Geological Notes of a Journey in Australia from Cape Jervis to 

 Mount Série." Proc. Geogr. Soc, Vol. V, pp. 242-44, 1861. 



" Report on the Auriferous Drifts and Quartz-reefs of Victoria ; 

 ■Observations as to the Probable Age of the lower Gold Drifts." Pub- 

 lished in Victoria, Australia, May 4th, 1866. Reprinted in Geological 

 Magazine, Vol. Ill, pp. 457-59, London, Eng., 1866. 



While in Victoria he added much to the knowledge of the gold 

 bearing rocks of that country and also aided in tracing the relation of 

 the Miocene Tertiary strata so rich in Eocene mollusca. 



Among the interesting collections made by Dr. Selwyn in Victoria 

 may be mentioned that now deposited in the museum of the Geological 

 Society of London, Burlington House, consisting of tertiary shells from 

 the Murray River.^ He was continuously engaged as the Director of 

 the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1852 to 1869, a period of nearly 

 seventeen years, and he resigned, wtien the le'gislature refused to vote 

 the necessary funds to carry on the work. 



Under Dr. Selwyn no less than sixty-one geological maps were issued 

 by the Geological Survey of the Colony of Victoria, besides a number of 

 sections to accompany the maps and reports. There may have been 

 many more published, but the ahove number was obtained from the 

 folio of Geological Maps issued by the Department of Mines and Geo- 

 logy of Victoria during Selw^m's tenure of office as government geologist, 

 which folio is now deposited with the Cartographer of the Geological 

 Survey of Ottawa, to whom I am indebted for information obtained 

 therefrom. 



^ The collections of the Geological Society of London are now being 

 transferred to the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural 

 History) of South Kensington. 



