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the G-orge of the Ashley.* Middle of January, 1872, the Ashburton, 

 Hinds and Eangitata districts were examined, principally in reference 

 to their coal deposits, to which about six weeks were devoted, and of 

 which the undermentioned Reportf gives the results. During April 

 of the same year the Shag Point district in the neighbouring Province 

 of Otago was also surveyed by me, and the results printed in the same 

 publication.^ Fuller Geological Beports on both districts were 

 printed in the same publication.** In June of the same year, 1872, 1 

 employed a collector in the Waipara district, by which the collections 

 of saurian remains in the Canterbury Museum were further enriched, 

 whilst excavations on a more extensive scale for dinornithic remains 

 were made at G-lenmark during the following month, the results of 

 which surpassed my most sanguine expectations. During these exca- 

 vations some more bones of that remarkable gigantic bird of prey were 

 found, which I had previously described as Harpagornis Moorei ; besides 

 this new material, bones of a smaller species were obtained, which I 

 named provisionally Harpagornis assimilis, both of which were described 

 in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, Volumes IY. 

 and VI. 



Passing over a period of a year, during which I was fully employed 

 with Museum work, and lecturing for the Collegiate Union, we arrive 

 at the time when, according to a resolution of the Provincial Council 

 in October, 1874, the Geological Survey of the Province, as a Pro- 

 vincial Department, was again instituted. Being appointed Provincial 

 G-eologist on the 1st of November of the same year, I started to the 

 south-eastern portion of the Province on the 10th of November, to 

 begin with an examination of the Waihao and lower Waitaki country, 

 returning towards the end of December to town. Middle of January, 

 1875, 1 left again for the south, and after paying a flying visit to the 

 Northern Ashburton and Mount Somers, to make an inspection of some 

 coalfields said to exist there, I proceeded to Timaru, examining the 



• Notes on the Geology of the Glentui, a> branch of the River Ashley. Geological Surrey of 

 New Zealand. Reports of Geological Explorations during 1871-72, 



t Report on the Coal deposits of the Ashburton district. Loe. cit. 



X Report on the Shag Point Coalfields, Otago. Geological Survey of New Zealand. Reports 0t 

 Geological Explorations during 1871-72. 



•• Notes on the Geology of the Clent Hills and Mount Somers districts, and Notes to accompany 

 % Geological Map and.Sections of the Shag Point district, Province of Otago. Geologkfel Surrey 

 Reports, 1872-73. 



