Abstract
NEARLY forty-five years have elapsed since Count Strzelecki and Prof. J. Beete Jukes, working independently, made known to geologists the main features of the important island of Van Diemen's Land. In the interval between the publication of their researches and the present day, numerous papers treating on questions of local geology have been published by Mr. Charles Gould—who for a time was engaged in making a geological survey of the colony—and by many amateur geological investigators. No complete description of the geology of the whole colony has as yet appeared, however; and we therefore heartily welcome the large and comprehensive volume now lying before us, as supplying a long-felt and pressing want.
Systematic Account of the Geology of Tasmania.
By Robert M. Johnston. Pp. 408, with Geological Map and Sections, and 57 Plates of Fossils. (Hobart: Published by the authority of the Government, 1888.)
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JUDD, J. Tasmanian Geology. Nature 40, 122–123 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040122a0
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