Excerpt from Prodromus of the Paleontology of Victoria: Or Figures and Descriptions of Victorian Organic Remains
As the publications of a Geological Survey cannot properly be limited to the maps and sections, but would be incomplete without figures and descriptions of the fossil organic remains made use of for the determination of the geological ages of the different geological formations of the country, it has been determined to issue a "Prodromus" or preliminary publication of the Victorian Organic Remains in Decades, or numbers, of ten plates each, with corresponding letterpress, on the plan of the Decades of the Geological Survey of England, followed by the Geological Surveys of Canada, India, and several other Governments.
The Decades will contain figures and descriptions in the first place of the more characteristic fossils of each formation, of which good specimens may be in the National Collection; so that observers in the field may make use of them for preliminary or approximate determination of the geological ages of the strata they may meet. A portion of the impression of the plates will be kept back until a complete systematic treatise on the fossils of each formation may be issued when the materials approach completion.
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