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On some Australian Tertiary Corals. 
By the Rey. J. E. Tentson-Woops, F.G.S.; Hon. Mem. B.S. 
N. asmania, ae Phil. tae Corr. Memb. RS. 
Victoria, Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W.,'7 November, 1877.] 
Tue subject of the Australian fossil corals has occupied much 
attention among geo plog oem of late ge urs Deep-sea dredging 
has brought them into prominent for not only have 
several missing takes of past paleontological history been thus 
discovered, but our fossils have been to possess remarkable 
features of their own and ash ar 29 "affinities with fossils in 
remote places. It was in 1865 that attention was first ines to 
them by Prof. Duncan, at present holding the honorable position 
of President of the Royal ag oy Society of London. In the 
stones are cece destitute of corals, howe’ they are wonder- 
fully rich in Polyzoa. They all came from the bed of argillaceous 
limestone which underlies the basalts at Muddy Creek about 5 
miles from Hamilton in Western Victoria. The result of Prof. 
uncan’ mination was that seven or eight new species were 
added to science, all of which possessed features of singular 
interest, with the usual array of Australian ‘ ities” as 
they are called. The relations were mostly with Miocene forms, 
em 
we al ne 
genera, include Plabellum, Placotrochus, Sphere “sip Cono- 
troe. 
