•'{•')" //" Ann riiil II ( I rnlni/isf . NdVi-iiiliiT, ISfH 
would liiixf spurfil uiidIIkt week. It will probably !•<■ sunnoiiiited in a 
3'eiir or two, as yoimi;- New Zealanders are getting to get a pride in it, and 
it will i)e nuieli easier now, as a "Chalet" has just been completed well 
up the Ilochstetter glacier and will afford a con veuieat base of operations. 
Although then- is evidence in old moraines, old high lake levels, and 
the like, of a former enormous extension of the glaciers, there is, strange 
to say, hardly any etpiivalent of the till or liouMer clay marking an ex- 
tensive moraine profonde. 
On this subject I may say that when in Adelaide (South Australia), I 
■went with professor Tate to llallefs cove, in Spencer gulf, to see his 
glacial markings. Much discredit has lieeti cast on these, but with all 
the assurance derived from having mapped glacial stria- in Scotland for 
ten years almost dailj', I recogDized these as genuine and luimistakable. 
There was just as little doubt that the ice which made them moved from 
south to north; let the fact be explained as it may -whether the motive 
lay in a liigh land now su))merged, or in the heajjing up of ice round 
the south jiole. In the latter case the ice should hav(^ impinged on 
other |>arts of southern Australia and on New Zealand. The markings 
may not liave been recogni/ed because of the prevalence of soft Tertiar}' 
rocks unfit to retain impressions, or ])eriiai)s ])ecause the idea would 
seem absurd. Kobeut L. .I.\ck. 
'/'oirifsr/'i/i', (^'iii iixIdNiJ, An;/. 5, IsQJ. 
]Mi!. OusniNc. AND THE ]\[uiR Gl ACiEiJ. — In the very instructive and in- 
teresting paper by 3Ir. Gushing in the October number of the Amekican 
Geologist I was specially attracted 1)\' his remarks upon p. 221 upon 
the slight (changes of level which seem recently' to have taken place at 
the head of Muir inlet. One indication of the varying pliases exhibited 
I)}" the front of ^luir glacier is found in the buried forests described by 
3Ir. ('ushiug on the east side. During the summer of 188G, when I was 
there, those buried forests wei'e not visible. Nor did we observe upon 
the east side any instance of the ice overlapping the sand and gravel, 
though we saw abundant instances of both phenomena ui)on the west 
side. In recurring, however, to a report of Mr. Lamplugh who visited 
the glacier in 1H8+, I find that his attention was attracted ]»y the overlap- 
ping ice on the east side, and the officers upon the steamer told me of 
having seen buried stumps at low tide in the same vicinity. Evidently 
the annual changes going on at tlie front of tlie glacier, especially upon 
the east side, are very rapid and marked, and it would be well if arrange- 
ments coidd lie made to have them accurately noted from year to year. 
I think ]SIr. Cushing is probal)ly right in his criticism upon my ex- 
])lanation of the l)urial of the forests upon the west side of the inlet. My 
suggestion was that "the dying glacier" had pushed eastward during a 
j)eriod of general advance, so as to obstruct the drainage through Muir 
Inlet, and certainly the position of the moraine upon this singular glacier 
looks as though it were an offshoot from the larger ice stream that at one- 
time tilled the west fork of (Jlacier l)ay, coming down from mounts 
Crillou and Fairweatln-r. Mr. ("nsliing's criticism is also sui)ported liy a 
