Thomson, J.A. 1913 Materials for the palaeontology of New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand Geological Survey. New Zealand Geological Survey paleontological bulletin 1. 104 p.
Abstract
The aims of this bulletin are threefold. In the first place, it is prepared for the use of officers of the New Zealand Geological Survey, to afford a ready means of reference to the literature and localities of New Zealand fossils. In the second place, it is designed to encourage and facilitate palaeontological work amongst New Zealand geologists. For this purpose the rules of Linnean nomenclature, which are not readily accessible in the local libraries, have been included. Emphasis has been laid on the due preservation and classification of type specimens, and on the importance of forming collections of topotypes in all the principal museums of the Dominion. In the third place, it attempts to give to palaeontologists abroad who are interested in the geology of the Dominion an account of the present position of New Zealand palaeontology and of the material that is available for subsequent work. It will be many years before New Zealand can hope to possess a number of specialists adequate to cope with the gigantic task that lies before them. As the need arises in connection with the unravelling of the stratigraphy of given districts, the Geological Survey will no doubt obtain the services of foreign specialists in the manner employed by the Indian Geological Survey, but in the meantime, if the peculiar interest attaching to the palaeontology of the country attracts volunteers abroad, the material in New Zealand will be freely made open to them.
