76 REPORT—1868. 
The fossil Corals of the Crag, Brockenhurst beds, Eocene deposits, Upper 
and Lower White Chalk strata, Upper Greensand and Red Chalk rock of Hun- 
stanton are considered, and also those of the Rhetic beds and of the great 
Liassic series. 
The fossil Corals of the Lias have been described by me and published in 
two parts by the Paleontographical Society during the last twelve months. 
This great fauna, with-the exception of one species, is new to Great Britain, 
and has been illustrated in seventeen plates. 
The fossil Corals of the Red Chalk of Hunstanton have just been litho- 
graphed in one plate; and those from the interesting Tertiary deposit at 
Brockenhurst have been already published and illustrated (1866). 
The Report dwells fully upon these three new faune. The species de- 
scribed by MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime, from the strata whose 
Corals are noticed here, are forty-three in number. 
. Lam glad to add notices of 115 species new to Great Britain, twenty-five 
of the species haying been described in the Coral-faune of the Continent. 
LIST. 
New Eocene species,..... 12 Described elsewhere ...... 2 
», Brockenhurst ,..... 11 5 Pee oe oti 2 
» Upper.Chalk ...,.. 10 Bs 530 oe bd Sea 1 
» Upper Greensand .. 4 Pe sp. Wiikey Perales 2 
», Hunstanton Redrock 2 x ii side 2 
Middle Tias.|¢ « cats via es « 2 3 ay (eaten 0 
Zone of Amm. Buckland. 10 2 
> »  Bucklandi.. 2 PP 9 Se eee 
- >» angulatus.. 37 ie 99) - a see 13 
A 35. Planorbis.. :.2 ¥ 35 eae 1 
Total new species.... 90 25 
25 
115 
Species described by MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime, 43. Total 
species, 158. 
The labour of passing so many forms under review, and of superintending 
twenty-six plates published by the Paleontographical Society, two plates in 
the Philosophical Transactions, and one in the Journal of the Geological 
Society, may perhaps be explanatory of the impossibility of my concluding 
the Report on the Cretaceous Coral-fauna. 
The new species from the Gault, however, have been lithographed but not 
published ; but those from the Upper Greensand and Neocomian have not yet 
been drawn. 
There remains for a future Report the description of the fossil Corals of 
the Gault, Lower Greensand, and of.the Oolitic rocks. 
The vast Coral-remains of the Paleozoic age have not been alluded to in 
this Report; and although I have had the advantage of Mr. Thomson’s 
valuable skill in producing sections of Carboniferous corals, and also of inves- 
tigating large series of Devonian and Silurian forms, I can only assert that, 
before any satisfactory communication on these early Zoantharia can be 
written, much time must be occupied and much labour be undergone *. 
* The Grant of £50 for reporting on the British Fossil Corals has been spent, 
