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glaciation revealed, amongst the strata of all the great formations 

 from Cambrian to Tertiary. 



A few years after Dr. Haughton brought the Carboniferous 

 boulders into notice, Sir Andrew Ramsay advocated (1855) the 

 glacial character of certain Permian boulder beds in central parts 

 of England 1 , and in 1856 my former colleague, Dr. W. T. Blan- 

 ford, F.R.S. 2 , now president of the Geological Society of London, 

 suggested the existence of glacial conditions in connexion with the 

 Talchir, or basal boulder beds of the great Gondwana system in 

 central India, these beds with boulders being now, after much 

 discussion, relegated to Carboniferous times. 



In 1873 Dr. Hull, F.R.S. 3 , recorded the discovery in the north 

 of Ireland, near Armagh, of Permian glacial boulder deposits 

 similar to those described by Sir A. C. Ramsay in the west of 

 England ; and from 1856 down to the last year we find frequent 

 records by much more than a dozen of our geological brethren, 

 tending to establish the co-existence of glacial conditions with 

 boulder beds of Carboniferous or Permian age. At places so 

 distant from each other as India, South Africa, and East Australia, 

 Dr. Oldham 4 , The Eev. Mr. Clark 5 , Sir R. Daintree 6 , Prof. 

 Selwyn 7 , Dr. Feistmantel 8 , Dr. W. T. Blanford 9 , Messrs. H. F. 

 Blanford 10 , Wilkinson 11 , Jack 12 , R. D. Oldham 13 , and David 11 , are 

 amongst those whose writings refer to the Australian series ; 

 Messrs. Wyley 15 , and Griesbach 16 , Dr. Sutherland 17 , and others 



Ramsay, Q. J. G. S., xi. 



2 W. T. Blanford, Mem. G. S. Ind., vol. i. p. 49. 



3 Hull, Mem. G. S. Ireland, Sh. 47. 



I Oldham, Mem. G. S. Ind. iii., p. 209. 



5 Clark, Trans. El. Soc., Vict., vol. vi., etc. 



6 Daintree, Kept, on Ballair, Melbourne, 1886, p. 10. 



i Selwyn, Melbourne, Minis, of Victoria, Off. Cat. Inter. Col. Exbib., 1866-7. 

 s Feistmantel, Eec. G. S., Ind., vol. ix., p. 78, T. E. S., N. S. W., 1860. 



9 W". T. Blanford, Manual G. S. Ind. 



10 H. F. Blanford, Q. J. G. S., vol. xxxi., p. 528. 



II Wilkinson, F. E. S., N. S. W., vol. xiii., p. 106. 



12 Jack, Eept. Bowen E. Coal, p. 1879, Brisbane. 



13 E. D. Oldham, Eec. G. S. I., xix. p. 43. 



14 David, Q. J. G. S., xliii., p. 190. 

 J s Wyley, Q. J. G. S., xxiii., p. 173. 



16 Griesbach, Q. J. G. S., xxvii., p. 57, 1881 ; Eec. G. S. I., vol. xix., p. 57. 



17 Sutherland, Q. J. G. S., L., vol. xxvi., p. 514. 



