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Geological Survey of the Colony, I abstained from sending them, 

 promising him that I would wait till the necessary descriptions could 

 be made here. However, I am truly sorry to say that hitherto, 

 probably owing to various causes with which I am unacquainted, this 

 necessary work has not been accomplished, and thus I shall not be able 

 to present, in the synoptical portion, such a clear statement of the 

 f ossiliferous contents of our older beds as I should have wished, and 

 which would have enabled me to settle conclusively the question as to 

 the age of some of the beds coming under our consideration. 



Fortunately Professor Hutton, whilst engaged as Assistant Geologist 

 on the staff of the Geological Survey of New Zealand, has worked out 

 the tertiary fossils, describing all that are new to science, and lately he 

 has continued this task by naming and describing a number of tertiary 

 fossils collected by me during the last few years in the south of 

 Canterbury, for which my best thanks are due to him. By such 

 means, it has been possible to place the stratigraphical division of our 

 tertiary beds and their co-relations in the most distant parts of the 

 colony, on a sound basis ; and moreover, this work, the continuation 

 of the labours of Hochstetter, Zittel, Stoliczka, linger, Stache, and 

 Karrer, has shown that the main divisions proposed by Hochstetter, 

 who has laid the foundations of a general knowledge of the geology 

 of New Zealand, have been confirmed in their general outlines by 

 the more extended labours of his successors. 



The most important work, in which the first classification of the 

 New Zealand formations is attempted, is the geological portion of the 

 Novara Expedition publication : — "Beise der Osterreichischen Fregatte 

 Novara urn die Erde in den Jahren 1 S57, 1858, and 1S59. Geologischer 

 Theil, Erster Band, Erste Abtheilung, Geologie von Neu Seeland. 

 von Dr. Eerdinand von Hochstetter." 



From this volume, the synopsis, with some additions, was translated 

 for the English edition of the more popular work of Hochstetter 

 (originally published in German in 1S63), which appeared in 1S67. 

 "New Zealand, by F. von Hochstetter." 



The last classification was published by Professor Hutton, F.G.S., 

 in 1S73. in bis Re; ort of the Geology of Otago (page 26) with which 

 I have co-related that proposed by me in the following synopsis, the 

 same formations, with a few exceptions, occurring in both provinces. 



Professor Hutton Las also given some lists of tertiary fossils in the 

 summary of his catalogue of the " Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata 

 of New Zealand/' which have been verv useful to me : — 



