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No. 1. The coralline limestone, consists of a reddish-white 

 calcareous rock, mostly hard and compact, and sometimes 

 changed into an indurated calcareous sandstone. It attains a 

 thickness of 100 feet, but has been much denuded in several 

 localities. Some isolated portions of this bed, from being 

 slightly variegated in colour, were formerly used for certain 

 durable work, under the name of Gozo marble. 



Fossils of No. 1. 



ECHINODERMATA. 



Cidaris Miletensis, Forbes. 

 Echinus Duciei, Wright. 

 Ec'liinolampas Deshayesii, Desor. 

 Ch peaster crassicostatus, var. of C. 



alius. 

 Brissus latus, Wright. 



imbricatus, Wright. 



• oblongus, Forbes, MSS. 



Brissopsis Duciei, Wright. 

 Schizaster eur}Tiotus, Agassiz. 

 Pericostnus excentricus, Wright. 



CORALLIA. 



Stylastrjea. 



MOLLUSCA. 



Voluta, cast of a large species. 

 Haliotis, ditto of a n. sp. 

 Troclius, ditto. 



Spondyhis quiiiquecostatus, Desh. 

 Ostrea Boblayei, Desh. 



Virleti, Desh. 



Pecten Pandora, Desh. 



squamulosus, Desh. 



Burdigalensis, Desh. 



Area, casts of. 

 Cytherea, ditto. 



Bryozoa. 

 Eschara monilifera. 

 Escharina, n. sp. 



Crustacea. 

 Carapaces and chelje of severaf 

 species. 



No. 2. The yellow sand, is sometimes slightly indurated, and 

 has an abundance of greenish-black grains intermixed with it. 

 In some places it abounds with Foraminifera. Enormous numbers 

 of Lenticulites coniplanatus, Defr., the flat side of the shell cor- 

 responding with the bedding of the rock, occiu' in some localities, 

 as in the cliffs of Ramala Bay, Gozo, and in many places in 

 Malta. Intercalated with these Nummulites are banks of 

 oysters, the teeth and vertebrse of fishes, especially those of the 

 great shark, Carcharodon megalodon, with the bones of Cetacea. 

 The greatest number of Echinoderms are likewise found in this 

 bed. It varies in thickness from 10 to 40 feet. 



Fossils of No. 2. 



Mammalia, determined by Carcharodon megalodon, J^^a^s., do. 



Prof. Owen (Forl)es). Carcharias productus, Agass., do. 



Delphinus, more than one species. Oxyrhina xiphodon, Aguss., do. 



Manatus? bones apparently of this hastdis ? Agass., do. 



genus. Mantelli ? Agass., do. 



Hemipristis serra, Agass., do. 



Fishes, detei-mined by Sir Phihp . paucidens, Agass. 



G. Egerton (Forbes). With other undetermined Squalidae. 

 Cerax aduncus, Agass., teeth of. 



