On fossil Chilostomatous Bryozoa from South-west Victoria, Australia

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Part of the material forming the subject of the present communication I received in exchange from Miss E. C. Jelly, in a small test-tube, already washed out of the clay; and on two subsequent occasions she has kindly lent me a number of slides from her collection. The “Jump of clay” out of which they were washed was sent over to England marked “Yarra-Yarra, Victoria,” by Mr. John Allen some years ago; but the exact locality Miss Jelly has been unable to obtain for me. However, I find that Mr. H. Watts, in a paper “On fossil Polyzoa” (in the Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. vi. 1865, p. 82–84), mentions a deposit from which Mr. Allen sent fossils, and says, “The deposit is described as being about thirty miles east of Warrnamboul, extending along the sea-coast for a distance of from six to seven miles, and is from thirty to forty feet in thickness.” A letter I wrote to Mr. Watts, on the possibility of its finding him, has elicited no response; and I therefore presume that he must be dead or have removed, and fear that the exact locality will not now be discovered. From the memoirs of the Geological surveys I conclude that it will be found to be what the Australian geologists call Miocene, though as yet this has not been shown to be of the age of the European Miocene formation. Mr. Etheridge, Jun., writes that Allen prospected in the ‘quartz cement which was considered by McCoy

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