Geological Survey of Canterbury . 63 



spared, and the opening of the Museum had to be postponed for a 

 short time longer. On August 2nd, I presented to the Secretary for 

 Public Works, the Hon. John Hall, a progress report* on the 

 geological survey of the Province of Canterbury, which was published 

 in the same year, by order of the Provincial Council. 



Besides the geological information, notes on collections, forming the 

 nucleus of the Canterbury Museum, lists of flowering plants, and tables 

 of altitudes were given. At the same time I sent a paper to the 

 Geological Society of London, in which I treated of the remarkable 

 glaciation of the Southern Island of New Zealand during pleisto- 

 cene times, and which was read on December 7th, 1864, and was 

 printed with an appendix " On the Pleistocene epoch of New Zealand " 

 in the Quarterly Journal of the Greological Society for May, 1865. t 



CajSTEebury Plains. 



Several important questions regarding the Canterbury plains having 

 been raised, as to the flow of the Eiver Wainiakariri and other points 

 having reference to engineering works, the Secretary for Public Works 

 instructed me to report on the formation of those plains. During the 

 winter months I visited several localities not previously examined, so 

 that I became acquainted with all the rivers from the Ashley north to 

 the Eangitata south, having followed their course from the sea to the 

 point where they enter from the mountains on the plains. This 

 report was furnished to the Secretary for Public Works on September 

 2nd, 1864, and printed by order of the Provincial Council. % As the 

 principal portion of that report will be incorporated in the geological 

 portion of this publication, I need not allude any further to its 

 contents. 



* Eeport on the Geol ogieal Survey of the Province of Canterbury, by Julius Haast, PhD., F.G.S. 

 Provincial Geologist. Session XXII, 1864. 



t On the Lake-Basins and Glaciers of New Zealand,, by Dr. Julius Haast, F.L.S., F.G.S. with 

 an introduction by Sir Rod. J. Murchison, K.C.B., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



% Eeport on the Formation of the Canterbury Plains, with a geological sketch-map and five 

 geological sections. By*JuLius Haast, PhD., F.G.S., F.L.S., Provincial Geologist. Session XXII-> 

 1864. 



