Tertiary.) PALMONTOLOGY OF VICTORIA. [ Echinodermata. 
better figures and more or less perfect descriptive notices have been 
published by the Rey. J. E. Tenison Woods, Prof. Duncan, Dr. 
Laube, and Mr. Etheridge. The Rev. Mr. Tenison Woods took 
my name for this species on looking over the Melbourne Museum, 
and figured it as Spatangus Forbesi in his “‘ Geological Observations 
in South Australia,” in 1862, without giving any authority, and 
mentioning that Capt. Sturt was in error in identifying it with the 
Spatangus Hoffmanni (Gold.). Prof. Duncan and Dr. Laube next 
dealing with the species, gave to the Rev. Mr. Tenison Woods the 
correction of Sturt’s error, and also gave his name as the authority 
for the species ; this was soon corrected by that author, who in his 
next published notice * gave me the credit of distinguishing the 
species, and in writing to me said he must have copied the name 
from my specimens in the Museum and forgotten where he had 
obtained it. Prof. Duncan has since added his own name (Woods 
and Duncan) as the authority for the species, but under the 
circumstances he also will probably prefer to leave it now under the 
old authority. 
To Prof. Duncan belongs the credit of first showing the identity 
of Hemipatagus and the older genus Lovenia, and of clearly show- 
ing the fascioles of the present fossil. I have figured the details as 
carefully as I can make them out, but fail to see in my specimens 
any transverse connection between the anterior ends of the internal 
fasciole, which do not go beyond half-way from the apex to the front 
margins, and do not seem to interrupt the inner bands of coarser 
tubercles on the bounding ridges of the anterior sulcus. 
Extremely abundant, filling one particular ironstone layer in the 
older Pliocene strata of Mordialloe and Frankston, on the east side 
of Port Phillip Bay; very abundant in cream-color, calcareous 
Upper Miocene beds of the Murray banks ; very abundant in yellow 
Miocene beds of the locality marked (I* m.): common, beautifully 
preserved, in the creamy Miocene beds of Portland Bay; common, 
* “T must here note that Dr. Duncan inadvertently gives me credit for a discovery which 
does not belong to me. Sturt’s mistake was corrected by Prof. McCoy as valeontologist of the 
Geological Survey. The . . . Professor dic aot publish any diagnosis, and | really forget 
now how his determination reached me.” Paper by the Rev. J. . Tenison Woods. Read 
December 19, 1865, to and published by Adelaide Philosophical Society, 
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