Hector* J. Hector, Rep. Geol. Exp., –91, p. lx. and McKay† A. McKay, l.c., p. 45. found the Taieri glacial beds so well stratified that they placed them in the brown-coal series of Lower Tertiary age. The better opportunity for examination now given along the new road following the north bank of the Taieri, described above, shows that there is no evidence to justify this correlation. South of Waihola and north of Allanton the glacial material dwindles down to a thin sheet that towards its outer limits in the south is represented by only a few scattered blocks of basalt. Passing eastward towards the sea, the eastern limit of the syncline rests against a highly denuded surface of the mica-schist. To what distance the glacial drift formerly reached in this direction it is impossible to say. All that now remains of it is a thin sheet of gravel and clay that appears here and there on the hill-tops fronting the sea. [Note.—Hutton, Hector, and McKay have recorded the Taieri Moraine on the hills overlooking the Tokomairiro Plain. Last July, Mr. A. Gordon Macdonald, B.E., and I traced it to the north bank of the Tokomairiro River; and since then Mr. Macdonald has pointed out that the front of Mount Misery up to a height of 1,000ft. above the sea is covered with a thick deposit of glacial morainic drift. I have lately verified this further extension of the Taieri Moraine.] Briefly stated, we have in the Taieri Moraine a glacial deposit varying from 0 to 1,500ft. or more in thickness. The upper layers, 450ft. or 460ft. thick, are composed of coarse, angular, and gravelly drift rudely stratified; the lower and major portion, over 1,000ft. thick, consists of well-stratified silts, sands gravelly drift. The deposit can be traced over a distance of nearly twenty-two miles in length, and over a width varying from one to three miles. The Taieri glacial deposit is, according to Dr. Marshall, the terminal moraine of a glacier that flowed across Central Otago, entering the Taieri Basin from the west. The beautifully glaciated slopes of the mica-schist uplands lying immediately west of the Taieri Plain, and the domed summit of Maungatua, bear eloquent witness of the path of this ancient ice-sheet; but I cannot agree that the moraine is terminal. At any rate, it bears no resemblance to such typical ancient terminal moraines as those at Clyde, Lower Kawarau Gorge near Cromwell, Kingston, Von, Waitaki, Lakes Guyon, Tennyson, Rotoroa, Rotoiti, and Brunner. Nor can I find in the literature of glaciation a reference to any terminal moraine consisting of such an assemblage of stratified deposits. The terminal moraines of ice-sheets consist of tumbled masses of rock dumped over the face of the ice, and seldom show the sorting of fluviatile action. The terminal moraines of valley-glaciers, on the other hand, often show rude sorting of the coarser matter, effected by the river issuing from the bottom of the glacier, the muds and finer material being generally carried away in the flowing stream. But from first to last the tumbled, angular, unsorted material predominates. In the Taieri Moraine the finer material forms 80 or 90 per cent. of the whole deposit. It is well stratified, and the stratification can be traced over a length of twenty miles. Subglacial and fluvio-glacial agencies alone seem competent to account for the formation of this pile of bedded glacial drift,