NEW SPECIES OF TERTIARY CHEILOSTOME BRYOZOA 

 FROM VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 



By FERDINAND CANU 



AND 



RAY S. BASSLER 



Head Curator, Department of Geology, U. S. National Museum 



(With Nine Plates) 



INTRODUCTION 



Through the kindness of various Australian friends, particularly 

 Dr. F. Chapman, I have from time to time received many packages of 

 washings containing Tertiary bryozoans from Victoria, with the re- 

 sult that as our studies upon other faunas progressed, Dr. Canu and 

 I were able not only to classify more accurately, and make new ob- 

 servations upon, the known Victorian species but also to bring to 

 light a number of interesting new forms. By the fall of 193 1 such a 

 volume of notes had accumulated that Dr. Canu began their compila- 

 tion for publication. On February 11, 1932, he completed the editing 

 and forwarded the final pages of these notes to me. The next morning, 

 awakening with a slight headache, which grew steadily worse, he 

 passed away from cerebral hemorrhage within a few hours. Thus 

 came to a close our association in scientific work of almost a quarter 

 of a century. 



Economic conditions have prevented the publication of our com- 

 plete work upon this subject, and the following abridged descrip- 

 tions of the new species are issued at the present time to make them 

 available for stratigraphic use in South Australian geology. Our 

 studies would seem to indicate that the Australian Tertiary does not 

 cover a long time period. The bryozoan faunas are so unlike the 

 standard associations in the Tertiary of Europe and America that no 

 definite correlations have been made so far. Indeed, their nearest re- 

 lations seem to be in the recent seas around Australia. All the types 

 of the species here described are in the collections of the United States 

 National Museum. 



R. S. Bassler. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 93, No. 9 



