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Westmeath. — Cornadowagh, seven miles west of Ballymahon; Athlone, two miles south- 

 east of the town. 



Wexford. — Hook Head, on the east side of Waterford Harbour ; Drinagh, one mile south 

 of Wexford. 



Killenny. — Dunkit, three miles north of Waterford; Kilkenny; marble quarries. 



Antrim. — Tornaroan, one mile and a half east of Ballycastle, on the shore at highwater 

 mark. 



CARBONIFEROUS BRACHIOPODA BEYOND THE LIMITS OF 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



Ninety-three of the species mentioned in my tables have been found in various 

 countries beyond the limits of Great Britain, and perhaps a larger number will be obtained 

 after a more extended search, for the species of many distant regions, and of even Euro- 

 pean countries (Belgium excepted), are but imperfectly known. It is to Prof, de Koninck's 

 admirable researches that we are mainly indebted for our knowledge of the palaeontological 

 richness of the Carboniferous rocks of Belgium, which he has ably elaborated during 

 many years. The number of Carboniferous Brachiopoda discovered by our friend in his 

 country but slightly exceed (?) those hitherto found in Great Britain. Mr. Edward Dupont has 

 also assembled from the neighbourhood of Dinant nearly ninety species of Brachiopoda, 1 and 

 which, with very few exceptions, are specifically the same as those which occur in Great 

 Britain, so that while Belgium contains some forms hitherto unknown to our strata, 

 Great Britain numbers likewise a few species not hitherto discovered in Belgium. 



The French Carboniferous species have not yet been studied in a satisfactory manner, 

 but there, as in Russia and in other parts of Europe, many of our British species occur, 

 along with a few forms special to the district. 



Having recently examined and described the Carboniferous Brachiopoda of the Punjab 

 (India), 2 I found that out of twenty-eight species, at least thirteen were common to 



1 " Notice sur les Gites de fossiles du Calcaire des bandes Carboniferes de Florennes et de Dinant," 

 ' Bulletins de l'Academie Royale de Belgique,' 2d ser., vol. xii, No. 12, 1861. 



Great credit is due to tbis young naturalist, wbo by dint of labour and perseverance has, within & 

 comparatively short period, assembled upwards of ten thousand specimens representing some five hundred 

 species from the Carboniferous rocks of bis district. 



2 'Quarterly Journal of the Geol. Soc.,' vol. xviii, p. 25, 1862. 



