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NOTES ON THE MUELLER GLACIER, NEW ZEALAND. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, 

 Hon. Mem, Linn. Soc. of New South Wales. 



(Plates IX. and x.) 



The first person who, so far as I am aware, recorded anj 

 observations on this district was Sir Julius von Haast, who visited 

 it in March and April, 1862,* having with him Mr. A. D. Dobson 

 and Mr. W. Young as topographical assistants. 



In 1867 Mr. E. P. Sealy ascended for the first time the Mueller 

 and Hooker Glaciers and made an excellent map of the district, 

 on the scale of five miles to the inch, a part of which I have copied 

 to illustrate this paper. It was in that and the three following 

 years that Mr. Sealy took the beautiful photographs, some of 

 which illustrate Dr. von Haast's " Geology of Canterbury and 

 Westland." 



In 1868 Dr. von Haast finished his topographical map of 

 Canterbury, on a scale of four miles to an inch, the original of 

 which is preserved in the Canterbury Museum. In it the Mueller 

 Glacier is not shown so correctly as in Mr. Sealy 's map. 



In 1870 Dr. von Haast again visited the Mount Cook district for 

 the Geological Survey of New Zealand, and he gave a general 

 account of the geology of the country and a section thi-ough 

 Mount Sefton and Sealy Peak in the " Reports of Geological 

 Explorations," 1870-1, p. 19. 



* Notes on the Geology of the Province of Canterbury. Canterbury 

 " Gov. Gazette," Vol. IX., No. 18, October 24th, 1862. 



