Geological Survey of Canterbury. 143 



I returned to Christchurch on "Wednesday, April the 18th, after 

 having visited once more the " Curiosity shop " on the Pakaia, to collect 

 fossils. Owing to the indefatigable zeal of my collector, and with the 

 assistance of my party, I brought about 160 skins of birds with me, 

 several of them either new to science or at least very rare, and desirable 

 objects for the completion of our own collection. Besides numerous 

 geological and paheontological specimens, I collected several thousand 

 specimens of dried plants, comprising the nearly entire flora of this 

 portion of our alpine region from the slopes of the eastern ranges to the 

 truly alpine zone near the line of perpetual snow. The observations I 

 was enabled to make of the great glaciation of New Zealand, and 

 of which such remarkable traces have been left with great distinct- 

 ness on the grand landscape of the Hakaia valley and the Lake 

 region situated in it, will be given in the geological portion of this 

 Eeport. Eor several months I was now occupied arranging the 

 collections, writing a report, and preparing maps and sections 

 illustrating the physical geography and geology of the head waters 

 of the Rakaia, which I handed to the Secretary for Public Works 

 on June 20th, 1866, and which, by direction of the Provincial Grovern- 

 ment, was printed in the same year. Eor title, see footnote, page 129* 



Christchurch and Lyttelton Railway Tunnel. 



The tunnel works of the Christchurch and Lyttelton railway having 

 advanced so rapidly that only a few chains towards the centre were 

 yet to be pierced, I continued to examine carefully the highly interest- 

 ing section thus offered, and sent a copy of that geological survey, a 

 section drawn at a scale of 20 feet to 1 inch, together with about 200 

 geological specimens in illustration, to the Paris Exhibition of 1867. 



Etrst Excavations for Mo a Bones, in G-lenmark, IS 66. 



At the invitation of Mr. Gr. H. Moore, the New Zealand partner of 

 Messrs. Kermode and Co., I proceeded at the beginning of December, 

 1866, to their fine property, Grlenmark, where, during the drainage of 

 some swampy ground, large quantities of moa bones had been dis- 

 covered. That gentleman, on my arrival, not only presented most gene- 

 rously the large and unique collection of remains of these extinct gigantic 

 birds to the Museum in connection with the geological survey, but in 

 order that I might judge for myself of the mode of occurrence, he 



