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THE GEOLOGICAL AGE OF CENTRAL AND WEST CORNWALL. 



For further information he refers me to Mr. Pengelly, of 

 Torquay, but as Mr. Pengelly had already referred me to Mr. 

 Kay-Lankester on this very point, it will be seen that not much 

 positive information is to be looked for on this important ques- 

 tion at present.* 



The accompanying list includes as far as is known to me all 

 the species of organic remains hitherto identified or supposed to 

 he identified in the rocks which I term " Fowey beds": — they are 

 given here for the convenience of future observers. I believe 

 there are many un-named species existing in the rocks, as well 

 as in the Truro and Penzance Museums. 



* Mr. Peach says Hugh Miller thought one of the Cornish fossils from Lantivet 

 Bay resembled Asterolepis, and adds " this is the only specimen Mr. Miller could 

 identify as agreeing with any of the fishes of the Old Red Sandstone. Another 

 Palaeontologist, one of the most eminent, " could not identify one." Trans. Roy. 

 Geol. Snc. Corn., XII, 123. He further states that Mr. Pengelly has a fossil 

 resembling an Asterolepis shoulder plate from Cross-sand Point, Looe, ibid p. 213. 



f The references are to the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of 

 Cornwall, for the years given, except where otherwise named. Many of the 

 names quoted will appear extremely antiquated to Palaeontologists of the 

 present day, but I have thought it better for the most part to let them appear 

 in their original forms. 



