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iii:i:.^ODi^2ioii. 



The marls e:rposecl "between I'orant Bay and Port Mo rant , 

 near Bowden, almost at the soxitheastern corner of the island 

 of Jamaica, have 1o:f oeen kno\7n to contain a reraarkahlj/ rich 

 and splendidly? preserved molliiscan fauna. In 186E llr. I^ticas 

 Barrett, then the Director of the Janiaican Survey, deposited 

 a collection of the niaterial in the British i.^eum. (l) A 



fl). '^uppy, B. J. I., "uart. Jour. -eol. 3og., London, vol. 



ES, p. 281, 1866. See also The Geologist, p. 275, 18C2. 



year later T:r. Oarrick D. lloore (2) suhmitted a report on ^:he 

 molluscs. At different times V.r, R. J. lechmere C-uppy (3) has 



'2). ^'oore, C. 'f.. Quart. Jour. "-eol. Soc. London, vol. 19, pp. 

 510-5ir5, 1963. 



(S). Crup-oy, B. J. L., loc. cit., ;rp. 231^2 D?^ 1866; C-eol. I.ar. 

 decade 1, vol. 4, pr>. 496-501, 1867; decade c, vol. 1, 

 iDp. 404-411, 43?-446, 1874; vol. 2, pp. 41-42, 1875. 



published descriptions of species from the "I.Iiocene of Jamaica' 

 Ap-oarently most, if not all, of his collections were obtained 

 throufh Ilr, Vendryes, of Kingston, Jamaica, ":ho has confirried 

 the impression that the imterial came fi-om Bowden (-i)^ and his 



