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WITH reference to Mr. A. Irving's communication under this heading in NATURE of August 15 (p. 608), the term Quartär, as German equivalent of our “Quaternary or “Post-tertiary,” is by no means a speciality of Prof. Credner, but the designation generally accepted by all German geologists since Naumann.
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GILLMAN, F. A Point in Geological Nomenclature. Nature 89, 661 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089661b0
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