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Of these 150 species only three are represented in living- 

 creation, which, therefore, gives us only two per cent, of living 

 species. Several of the species however have not yet received 

 specific names, but so far as the study of them has gone up to the 

 present, it does not seem possible to refer any of them to living 

 species. 



By an inspection of the above list it will be seen to include 

 many of our most characteristic Eocene fossils, and from the 

 accompanying table the close relationship to other characteristic 

 Eocene localities is obvious. 



The fossils throughout the dark clays are in a very good state 

 of preservation though the clays are very wet, and this which 

 much increases their tenaceous character also greatly increases 

 the difficulty in procuring specimens without damage, and it is of 

 very little use to attempt to clean the specimens for purposes of 

 identification until they have dried considerably. 



A few remarks on some of the fossils might not be out of place. 

 Two of the species namely, Waldheitnia divaricata, and Peris- 

 ternia Morimdiana, have hitherto only been obtained from the 

 River Murray Cliffs, and it is a very interesting fact to find them 

 also in this locality. There can be no doubt whatever about 

 these identifications, as they have been carefully compared with 

 actual specimens from the typical locality. 



Peden dichotomalis is an interesting shell which is at present 

 only recorded from Schnapper Point and the Gellibrand River 

 and is not particularly common at either of these localities. 



A new Fiisus should be noted, examples of which have also 

 been obtained from Schnapper Point. This remarkable shell will 

 no doubt form the type of a sub-genus as it possesses such marked 

 characters of its own, the whorls are wholly disjoined, the canal 

 is almost closed, and the whole shell roughly speaking is some- 

 what like the columella of some fusoid shell divested of the 

 whorls, the embryonic whorls are however in contact and are 

 terminated by a projecting apex. 



Some specimens of a new species of Phos were obtained which 

 show strong affinities to the undescribed species occurring at 

 Spring Creek, but owing to the fact that the Spring Creek 

 examples are not in a very good condition nothing very definite 

 about their identity can be said at present. The new species of 



