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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1715, 16 August 1862, Page 3

* This absolute and categorical assertion ought to be received by your readers with due caution, as L. von Buch's beautiful theory of the origin of craters, which has gained admiring partisans and fervent supporters among the scientific and reflecting part of the community, not merely in Germany —where Alexander von Humbolc unhesitatingly accepted th« theory and endorsed it with his own great name,—but in all parts of the civilised world, stands too firmly rooted to be overturned by a mere statement as that made with such selfcomplacency in the text. But to do justice to Dr. von Hochstetter and not to prejudge the case, it is but lair to state here tl»at in a note he refers for further information on this interesting subject to a descriptive work, written by himself, on the fieology of New Zealand, which will shortly be tmbluhtd, with maps and sketches, as a separate volume of the scientific part of the Novara expedition ; and your readers will, therefore, do well at least to suspend their judgment till they have peruse*.! itvo ica.rueii doctor*s theory and examined the arguments he brings forward to prove ils plausibility. [Thk Translator.