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THIS volume appears to have been issued as a memorial to the late Sir Edgeworth David. It gives a fuller and more detailed account of the work published in 1928, of which a notice appeared in NATURE (123, 659). The supposed fossils were found in the Adelaide Series near Adelaide, and are regarded as indicating the existence of Algae, Radiolaria, annelids and arthropods in pre-Cambrian times. The specimens which have been seen in England are far from convincing, but it is claimed that as the result of the mass effect of a very large collection “no Australian scientist, whether palaeontologist, zoologist, or geologist, who has taken the trouble to study the specimens, has any doubt whatever as to their being genuinely organic”.
Memoir on Fossils of the Late Pre-Cambrian (Newer Proterozoic) from the Adelaide Series, South Australia
By Sir. T. W. Edgeworth David Dr. R. J. Tillyard. Pp. xi + 122 + 13 plates. (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, Ltd.; London: Australian Book Co., 1936.) 7s. 6d.
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Memoir on Fossils of the Late Pre-Cambrian (Newer Proterozoic) from the Adelaide Series, South Australia. Nature 138, 994 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138994b0
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