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for me by Professor Rupert Jones, many years ago :—Polymor- 
phina lactea, T me agglu tinans, Globigerina bulloides, 
Cassidulina oblonga, Resalina.. Bertholetiana, Rotalia ungeriana, R. 
sagheagad R. reticulata, R.r ere are no Nummulites 
or any of the characteristic es of our Eocene 
Turning now to the Polyzoa, we must say in this case en that 
a careful examination is wanting. A Retepora, woe nearly allied 
to R. monilifera—if not identical with it—is lg aaeuat 
Gambier, so is = existing pee sinwosa wire sal), a 
Cellepora pumicos . Some of the Escharide Se been 
doubtfully ralceed to existing ote ; but it must be remem- 
bered that by f larger portio u g Australian 
Polyzoa are of families which would aos be destroyed ere 
th uld mbed in our rock are jointed wit 
horny joints in a single or multiple series vi céile, and these horny 
aha would rapidly pein, and thus cause the destruction of the 
Membranipore living on our southern coasts, and I have carefully 
searched for fossils like them at Mount Gambier, but without 
sone. It is, I may say, qui facility 
with which the me male es sonoma and the beauty of the 
forms to be dealt with, ought to make it equally attractive. As. 
far as pai own per extend, I should say that we wed 
but a oe ip n still existing of those which were likely. 
Sane dn 
Patients to the corals, because that is the order which is mat 
convenient, for I need hardly state that in point of organi 
_ they rank below the Polyzoa, it is singular that, i the Mount 
Gambier formation abounds in Polyzoa, Corals a or: 
absent. In fact,I can remember none except a ee cast 0 Pla- 
cotrochus occasionally. But at Muddy Creek, Geelong, and "Table 
Cape, Tasmania, they are numerous. Now the existing forms 
n all these localities are only four in number, namely, Fla- 
bellum candeanum, F. distinctum, Deltocyathus italicus, "Edw. 
Haime, and a new species. of the genus man Splonotenales maa which 
a area — ed Sphenotrochus variolaris. . 
form Red Sea and off the coast git Japan ; 
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ourishing i in Australia in the localities where they are found as 
fossils. siete italicus, Edw. and Haime, is another species 
