and South \usti ilia Professor M'Coy, as Mr. Wilkin 

 has shown that the Miocene fossils ol Southern A us 

 closely related generic-ally, and even specifically to thos 



anti-chajulata, species of Ostrea, C 



T.n-rlh-lla, \sta,-t.<, Carl, -la. Lcla, !«k, f./pra-a, and other 



genera. Mr. Wilkinson makes the following concluding observa- 



The discovery of these Miocene beds on the southern coast of 

 New Guinea is one of considerable importance. Their occurrence. 



wit', th Vu-"li ,r borne out 



by the fact of the shall, )« i ss of rh iniervenino- sea 



From geological ditn it is b h, 1 tint tl . < mtinent [Aus- 



since the (', ;!| least i„ Victoria, for the lava 



flows of that age, now forming the Werribce Plains, were mb- 

 ),„,,■;„< flows. And Mr. Daintrce, formerly '•■overnment geolo- 

 gist of Queensland, shows, in his pamphlet on the Geolo U v of 

 m lit*! i , !,« i , '. , tion ol Australia" has 



taken place since the volcanic outbursts of a late Tertiarv epoch. 

 Now, it i> in the 1 "t , < 11 ,h i ne deposits [or Qua- 



ternary] that are found the rernah ,„pv's- 



1», ,-,<, ,!,„,, M , ,,,,„,< ,;„,„. ;,„. ,,;, .;. 7 „ i . itl(1 others; and. as 

 I representath - noi ilia and New 



Gun, en. it is not i .;imals, whose 



bones are found in V, hen, < ,„,,! in both 



those countries. And farther, as the luxuriant vegetation and 

 1 i i], -pose to be t tor the sup- 



port of thos, [ n x.u- Guinea, is it 



rash to eonjeeturt m , rl , _ tares may not be 



re tit the present time? Farther researches may prove 



eh 



with at atlas in 4 'to. I-Jruxelles. 18' 



sites eschar,,:,/,,. | ' F Forbesi, 



F.aspera,F fibrosa , /•: >;.,thla,r lira ; <'/„„„ t, , .</,-;,,(. //a. L, r 'a,ia 



■"ta, L r„„ 7 „v,,„, >t,:, } ,hnnn „a ,,,,-t,,,. \ rh a ,i "'<>- 



Its. I^ntameras K„if,/,tii, P. „/,{,, „,,„,-. (),-(/,;, ,.o,,ai;c»lata, 

 I ,/'>,> , 1 >, , , s, ,,, , „ M t ,'< 



tumida ; Ptar aea a , / .- , VJ ;,, s ;,j- 



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