Excerpt from Geology of Victoria: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Specimens in the Industrial and Technological Museum (Melbourne), Illustrating the Rock System of Victoria The descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Industrial and Technological Museum, Which now appears, originally formed part of the Report of the Museum, presented to Parliament in 1874. It is' reprinted, With a View of making it more generally useful to the public. The collection of rocks native to Victoria Which the catalogue describes, affords a very good opportunity of studying the rock systems of the country. The greatest care has been observed With reference to the locality of each specimen, and a great number have been placed aside as comparatively useless, because their identity With a particular district could not, With certainty, be stated. In the catalogue will be found explanatory notes on the character of the various specimens, their modes of occurrence and affinities, rendering the collection still more useful, and the catalogue not merely a hand - book to this collection, but a guide that can be used With great advantage in the formation of other collee tions throughout the country. The foreign rocks and minerals, carefully classified in the.museum, also afford an opportunity of comparison With those of Victoria, Which must be interesting and valuable to all who are engaged in geological research. In his origi nal report to the Trustees, Mr. Ulrich states that the nomenclature, system, and basis of classification adopted are according to the most approved recent views on Lithology by Dr. Zirkel, of Leipzig, Dr. Senft, von Cotta, and other authorities on the subject, though following mainly those given by Dr. Zirkel in his work on Petrography. As all the collections of rock specimens in the Museum have been arranged according to this system, the identical species and varieties of rocks of these collections can easily be compared. The geological notes introductory to the several main divisions and groups of rocks, are partly from Mr. Ulrich's own obser vations in the field, and partly extracts from the reports of Mr. A. R. C. Selwyn, the Director of the former Geological Survey of Victoria. The numbers of this catalogue agree with those on the descriptive labels attached to the specimens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.