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altogether deified, are held in considerable reverence, and kept in 

 a large house set aside for their reception, and into which no 

 female is allowed to enter. They are rude representations of saints 

 with palm leaves held in their hands, the fronds curving over their 

 heads ; others have what I take to represent rays of glory ; some 

 with Elizabethan collars and tall conical hats ; others again, with 

 a sort of helmet or cock's comb-like ridge over the crown, and 

 holding palm leaves, as if for a canopy, over them. 



I scarcely know which is the more interesting, this deposit of 

 Globigerina chalk, with its masses of minute shells, or the fact of 

 these carvings representing the Elizabethan and old Spanish mode 

 of dress, which points to the probability of the early Spanish 

 voyagers having visited these Islands. 



Mr. Brown informs me that the chalk is thrown up by the sea 

 after earthquakes and tidal waves, in large massss, which fact 

 seems to point to quite another origin of these Islands than is 

 generally supposed. 



I have forwarded some portions of this Globigerina chalk to 

 Professor Liversidge, who will doubtless give us a full account of 

 its analysis in due time. 



On Perameles Cockerellii. By E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S. 



Not having an opportunity of examining the teeth of this species 

 when describing the animal, I take the first opportunity of sup- 

 plying this omission, as far as possible, with a remark on the 

 coloration : — 



Incisors §'.§, I can find no trace of the 5th (large posterior J 

 incisor ; canines \\\, these are, comparatively speaking, very small, 

 and about equal in length to the first premolar; premolars |;|; 

 molars 4;^, all developed, comparatively broad. The distance 

 between the posterior incisor to the canine is 0*2 ; to the first true 

 molar, 0"7. 



