- "1 



Guppy (1), Ether id£;e (£) and Gab "3 (3) - Upper Eiocene to dis- 

 tlngiiiiih them frora the older I'iocene faiiai&s of Aiitig-ua and 



fl). Gu-Dp;.-,. .■!. J. L, , ."uart. Jour. Geol. Soc. london, vol. 



22/ :'p. £81-286, 18t6 ( Janaica) ; pp. 570-579 (general); 

 Geol. Mag., decade 1, vol. 4, pp. 49G-501 (-^-eneral); 

 decade 2, vol. 1, pp. 404-411, 4?''5-446, 1874 (f;eneral, 

 including a check-list); Qimrt. Jour. Geol. 3oc. London, 

 vol. 32, pp. 516-518, 1876 (Santo Lominrro). Cuppy has 

 expressed the canB opinion in numerous other oapers that 

 have no direct re"^ at ion. 



(c). Etheridge, .. , .eports on the Geology of Jamaica, pt. 2, 

 ■.est Indian Surve;', I.Iem. Geol. Sur.Gt. Britain, ap. 5, 

 pp. S11-S29, 1859. 



(S). Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. ITewser., vol. 15, pp. 95-102, 

 187:^ (Santo Domin^^i-ol. 



Trinidad, the latter bein'^ cubsecuently considered Eocene "by 

 Gu.-^py. These earl^' inve;. '.- ' 1 ' vere conducted before Bey- 

 rich had differentiated the Oligocene or before the concept' 

 of a disti.'Ct Oli'iocene transgression or transgressioiis had re- 

 ceive general credence aiid it v.-as q.uite natiu-al to consider "..e 

 faunas liioceiis since th.ey occupied an intermediate position 

 TTith reference to "'.'oc r-ne a"rd ''^lincevie faunas, altho-i^h most of 

 'Che fo/i^^s that were assigTieci to ..eoent species have he en sep- 

 arated from their existing- analogues by the later sharper def- 

 inition 0^ ''--^GlfiQ liu-S. From the very inception .- ese 



early studies the close relation of the faunas to those of 

 the Tertiary deposits in the vicinity of Bordeaux in south- 



