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TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION E. 815 
6, The Relations of Christmas Island to the Neighbouring Lands. 
By C. W, Anprews, B.Sc., F.GS, 
The author points out that in Christmas Island there is a long series of Ter- 
tiary deposits, ranging, probably, from the Upper Eocene at least to the end of 
the Miocene, and that these rocks are closely similar to deposits of the same age in 
Java and the neighbouring islands. 
The relations of the present fauna and flora are considered, and it is shown 
that they most nearly resemble those of the Indo-Malayan sub-region, but that in 
certain cases the species are the same as some found in Ceylon, &c. Some of the 
means by which the various plants and animals may have reached the island are 
referred to, 
