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SOME CRETACEOUS AND EOCENE CORALS FROM JAMAICA. Br 
T. WAYLAND VAUGHAN. 
Introductory. 
Mr. Robert T. Hill has submitted to me for study the various fossil 
corals that he has collected in his visits, made for Professor Alexander 
Agassiz, to the West Indian Islands. The following paper has grown 
out of a study of a part of this material, i.e. the so called Cretaceous 
and the Eocene species. 
Duncan is the only author who has contributed to the paleontologic 
literature on corals of these ages from Jamaica. His first paper, pub- 
lished jointly with Wall, “A Notice of the Geology of Jamaica, espo- 
cially with reference to the District of Clarendon ; with Descriptions of 
the Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene Corals of the Island,” ! contains 
notices or descriptions of the following “Cretaceous” and Eocene 
Species : — 
: Lower Cretaceous. 
Diploria crassolamellosa, Edwards Heliastraa cyathiformis, sp. nov. 
and Haime. Oyathoseris haidingeri, Reuss. 
Heliastraa exsculpta, Reuss. Porites reussiana, sp. nov. 
Five species in all, three of which are identified with European species 
and two described as new. As Duncan compares these species with the 
Gosau fauna, I took the opportunity while in Europe to visit the K. K. 
Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum in Vienna and study Reuss’s types of the 
Gosau corals.2 Later I went to London and studied in the collection of 
1 Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, 1865, Vol. XXT. pp. 1-15. 
2 I am deeply indebted to Prof. Theodore Fuchs, Director of the Geological 
Department of the Imperial Hofmuseum, and to Drs. Wähner and Kittl for giving 
me every facility possible in my studies. Prof. E. Suess gave me access to all the 
collections at the University of Vienna, and I express my hearty thanks to him. 
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