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Fauna of the Bowden Beds. — The Bowden coral fauna was published 
by Duncan. What is apparently the Bowden molluscan fauna was studied 
dy Carrick Moore,’ and later by Guppy.? Etheridge è has also written 
9xtensively on the fauna. Most of the English writers except Duncan, 
in discussing the Miocene fossils, have given no specific localities nor 
‘ny stratigraphic details concerning their occurrence. Duncan gives 
Owden, Vere, and the district of Vere, Clarendon Parish, as the locali- 
ties of his species of Miocene corals. 
Some of these early writers give references which indicate that the 
Original source of their material was a collection of fossils brought over by 
Barrett in 1862,* and deposited in the British Museum. Guppy has also 
described many species collected by Vendryes, who still lives at Kingston. 
Moore stated ® that they came from “some beds which were referred to 
1 the Geologist for 1862, page 373.” Upon consulting the volume and 
‘ticle quoted, which is Barrett’s original article ê on the Cretaceous rocks 
of Southeastern Jamaica, no reference to these beds was found. In the 
imaican Reports, however,” Barrett notes that in the gravel at Bowden 
A are beds of the most perfect Tertiary shells yet known on the island, a 
St and description of which will be found in the Appendix, after critical 
*Xamination.” This brief note is the only clue to the locality of the 
Mmerous molluscan fossils usually discussed by most of the British 
Paleontologists from “The Miocene” and “White Limestone” of 
maica. 
From Barrett’s short description, given on previous pages, it will be 
seen that he clearly recognized the conglomeritic nature of the beds at 
Owden, and nowhere speaks of the fossils as occurring in the “White 
"Inestone," or “Yellow Limestone,” as they were later made to appear 
"Y others, His death prevented his further elucidation of these beds, 
"t the above citations undoubtedly give the locality of the Tertiary 
sils collected by him and sent to England, to which Moore, Guppy, 
9odward, and Etheridge have alluded, and which is the same as that 
tom which Simpson and Henderson (in 1893-94) and the writer (in 
96) made the abundant collections mentioned in this paper. 
1 Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, 1863, Vol. XIX. pp. 510-513. 
2 In many papers previously cited, 
3 Jamaican Reports, pp. 319-338. 
* See Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, 1866, Vol. XXII. p. 281. 
5 Ibid., 1863, Vol. XVI. p. 510. 
* Tbid., 1860, Vol. XVI. p. 381. 
T Op. cit., pp. 44, 45. 
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