Reports of Committees. 



COMMITTEE FOR INVESTIGATION OF GLACIAL 

 PHENOMENA IN AUSTRALASIA. 



Members of Committee. ^ ^ X ' " * * *^^. 



Mr. E. G. Hogg ] Mr. W. Howchin /"^ikd.^ 



Mr. a. Gibb Maitland Mr. G. A. Waller „ ^z^^* ^^a ;- 



Mr. B. Dunstan \ Mr. R. Speight j-- j^- n»»«fc- V' 



Mr. R. M. Johnston i Mr. A. E. Kitson ^ i » d A * V 



Mr. G. Sweet | Dr. Marshall ■•J L J » K .«* « ^ 

 Mr. W. H. Twelvetrees | Professor David 



(Secretary). 



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L— INTRODUCTION. 



Note by the Secretary (T. W. Edgeworth David) on the Reports 

 OF THE Glacial Committees. 



The secretary desires to call special attention to the important 

 report and map by Dr. P. Marshall, relating to the Pleistocene, or 

 possibly in part late Tertiary, glaciation of New Zealand. This map 

 is a great advance on any of its predecessors. 



In regard to glacial evidences in Australia, the secretary, while 

 directing special attention to the important paper by Mr. Walter 

 Howchin, F.G.S., on Lower Cambrian glaciation, desires to state that 

 Mr. A. Gibb Maitland, F.G.S., Government Geologist of Western 

 Australia, wishes that a record may be here made of the view that the 

 conglomeratic beds between the Sturt Gorge and Blackwood, in the 

 spurs of the Mount Lofty Ranges, near Adelaide, are not of glacial 

 origin. He concurs with Mr. H. Y. li. Brown, the Government Geologist 

 of South Australia, and Messrs. Basedow and Iliffe, in interpreting 

 them as being something of the nature of crush conglomerates. The 

 secretary wishes to point out that whether the above beds are of glacial 

 origin or not (and he firmly believes them to be glacial) they are strati- 

 graphically continuous with the beds at Petersburg to the north, and 

 with those at Pekina and Jamestown, &c. That the beds are of glacial 

 origin at the last three localities is, in the opinion of the secretary, an 

 absolute certainty. 



He exhibited at the British Association at York last year, and also 

 at the International Geological Congress at Mexico last September, 



