A Synopsis of the known Species of Australian - 
Tertiary Polyzoa. 
By R. eta, fon junr., F'.G.S., of H. M. Geological Surve 
8 pee rmerly ‘Assistant Geologist, Geological Barna 
of Vict 
[Communicated by Rev. Me B. CLaRKE. ro before the Royal Society of 
S.W., 5 Sept., 1877.] 
i ieee and may be the means of''s savin hae to some 
extent at least, both time and trouble in searching out the bibli- ° 
. ography of the subject. With it must alw ve be associated the 
names of the Rey. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.G.S., and Prof. Bus 
F.R.S. To the geological acumen and rseverance of the former 
we are indebted for one of the most complete works on the Upper 
Australian a nes yet published, and it is through his pbeues 
as a collecto that t we owe our knowledge of the organisms 
a9 stion 
Hist story a Bibliography.—Tertiary Polyzoa appear to have 
sien, first collected in Australia, of which we have any definite 
pe 
European (at least I presume so from t e names given in his 
list) will not, I think, stand ; in fact this has already bee n pointed 
out for some of them by the Rev. J. E. Pentison- W oO. 
\f : are 
on the subject as known to me, was published in 1859, 
entitled, “ ona Tertiary Deposit in South 
1 London : 2 vols. nit 3 vol. ii. pp. 253-54, nathan gee 
? Geological Observations in South A ustralia, 1862, p- 105. 
3 Trans: Phil. Institute, Victo ctoria, 1859, vol. iii. pp. 84-94. 
