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Sheet Xo. 51. S.W. Geological Survey of Victoria. Glenhope and Baynton. 

 Surveyed, engraved and published under the direction of A. R. C. Selwyn, 

 Government Geologist at the Geological Survey Office, Melbourne. Scale, 

 two inches to a mile. Geologically and topographically surveyed by Nor- 

 man Taylor, Field Geologist, 1865. Published 1SG6. Printed at the 

 Geological Survey Department. 



Section I. From West IMargin, Quarter Sheet, 14, N.W. (Bradford.) 



Section II. Area Bradford and Creek. 



Sections. Quarter Sheet, 12, N.E. (Bacchus Nearh.) 



Sheet No. 52. N.E. Geological Survey of Victoria, parts of Eddington, Barring- 

 hup, Tarrengower, Craigie, Carisbrook and Moolort. Surveyed, engraved 

 and published under the direction of A. R. C. Selwyn, Government Geol- 

 ogist at the Geological Survey Office, Melbourne. Scale, two inches to a 

 mile. Published 1S63. 



In all the above maps it is clearly seen that the same care, precision and neat- 

 ness, so characteristic of the (geological Survey of Great Britain were 

 also present, clearly marking Selwyn's influence and work while chief 

 of the Geological Survey of Victoria. 



CHRONOLOGICAL DIGEST 



1S24. Born at Kilmington, Somersetshire, England. 



1845. Appointed to the field staff of Her Majesty's Geological Survey of England 



and Wales. 

 1845-1852, Period during which Selwyn was attached to the Government Survey. 

 , 1852-1869. Period during which Selwyn wa.3 in charge of the Geological Survey 



in Victoria, Australia. 

 1856. Appointed one of the Victoria Commissioners of Mines. 

 1858. Selected as a member of the Board of Science of Victoria. 

 1858. Elected a member of the Board of Science of Victoria. 

 1858. Elected a member of the Prospecting Board of Victoria. 

 1861. Appointed Commissioner for the Victoria International Exhibition. 

 18()2. Appointed Commis.sioner for the London International Exhibition. 



1865. Appointed Commissioner for the Dublin Exhibition. 



1866. Appointed Commissioner for the Paris Exhibition. 



1869. Appointed to succeed Sir Wm. E. Logan as Director of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada, December 1st. 1S69. 



1871. Elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. 



1876. In charge of Mineral Exhibit from Canada to Centennial Exhibition, Phil- 

 adelphia. 



1878. In charge of Collections of economic minerals and geology of Canada at 

 the Paris International Exposition, where he was also elected Chair- 

 man of the Jury of Cartography. 



1S78. Made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Paris. 



1881. Received the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, McGill University, 



Montreal. 



1882. Selected by the Marquis of Lome, Governor of Canada, and founder of the 



Royal Society of Canada as one of the twenty original Fellows of 

 Section IV., Geological and Biological Sciences, and first President 

 of the same. 



