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Fauna of the Bowden Beds. — The Bowden coral fauna was published 

 by Duncau. What is apparently the Bowden molluscan fauna was studied 

 by Carrick Moore,^ and later by Guppy.^ Etheridge ^ has also written 

 extensively on the fauna. Most of the English writers except Duncan, 

 in discussing the Miocene fossils, have given no specific localities nor 

 any stratigraphic details concerning their occurrence. Duncan gives 

 Bowden, 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 

 in the Geologist for 1862, page 373." Upon consulting the volume and 

 article quoted, which is Barrett's original article ® on the Cretaceous rocks 

 of Southeastern Jamaica, no reference to these beds was found. In the 

 Jamaican Reports, however,"^ Barrett notes that in the gravel at Bowden 

 " are beds of the most perfect Tertiary shells yet known on the island, a 

 list and description of which will be found in the Appendix, after critical 

 examination." This brief note is the only clue to the locality of the 

 numerous molluscan fossils usually discussed by most of the British 

 paleontologists from *' The Miocene " and " White Limestone " of 

 Jamaica. 



From Barrett^s short description, given on previous pages, it will be 

 seen that he clearly recognized the conglomeritic nature of the beds at 

 Bowden, and nowhere speaks of the fossils as occurring in the " White 

 Limestone," or " Yellow Limestone," as they were later made to appear 

 by others. His death prevented his further elucidation of these beds, 

 but the above citations undoubtedly give the locality of the Tertiary 

 fossils collected by him and sent to England, to which Moore, Guppy, 

 Woodward, and Etheridge have alluded, and which is the same as that 

 from which Simpson and Henderson (in 1893-94) and the writer (in 

 1896) made the abundant collections mentioned in this paper. 



1 Quart. Jour. GeoL Soc. London, 1863, Vol. XIX. pp. 510-613. 



2 In many papers previously cited. 

 8 Jamaican Reports, pp. 319-338. 



4 See Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, 1866, Vol. XXIL p. 281. 



5 Ibid., 1863, Vol. XVL p. 510. 



6 Ibid., 1860, Vol. XVI. p. 381. 

 ' Op. cit., pp. 44, 45. 



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