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A. W. WATERS ON FOSSIL CH1LOSTOMATOTJS 



of the New-Zealand fauna ; but, as he does not seem to have devoted 

 himself much to the Bryozoa, we cannot make comparison with the 

 New-Zealand species until some specialist has worked at them *. 

 There are several species described by Busk and Hincks in their 

 papers and works ; and lately the study has been taken up byHaswell, 

 Goldstein, Maplestone, and J. B. Wilson, with interesting results. 



The fossils have attracted comparatively very little attention. In 

 1859 the Council of this Society admitted a Note f by Mr. Busk on 

 Mount-Gainbier fossils ; but this only consisted of a list of 37 species, 

 32 of which were new and were not described, but only christened ; 

 so that it still remains perfectly useless for comparison. These names 

 have sometimes been quoted ; and workers have wasted their time in 

 libraries searching for the descriptions ; and in the various biblio- 

 graphical and specific lists published by Mr. Etheridge, Jun., these 

 names are all referred to in full, and thus some pages are filled up 

 with empty names. As Stoliczka points out, such anticipatory pub- 

 lication brings confusion without equivalent advantage; and cer- 

 tainly in this case there has been much irritation and ink wasted, 

 which might have been avoided if the paper had been entirely ig- 

 nored. In Mr. J. E. T. Woods's " Geol. Observations in Australia " 

 entirely unsatisfactory figures without description appeared ; and 

 since then Mr. Woods has published a few short papers, to which I 

 refer in the descriptive text, of which I will only mention his paper 

 " On someTertiaryAustralian Polyzoa" and "Australian Selenariadee," 

 in which fossils from Mount Gam bier and Muddy Creek, Hamilton, 

 Victoria, are described, both being considered of the same age. 

 Therefore we may say that, with the exception of the papers by Mr. 

 Woods and one shortly to be mentioned by Mr. Wilson, no work has 

 been done on the Australian fossil Bryozoa ; but in the description of 

 the Novara Expedition, vol. i. pt. 2, an important paper is published 

 by Stoliczka J on the Bryozoa from the marine beds of theWaitemata 

 Schichten of Orakei Bay, New Zealand ; and as eight species are 

 common to both formations, the two deposits are of somewhat the 

 same age. 



At the time I commenced the study of this material no fossil 

 Catenicellidae were known ; but since mine were lithographed, Mr. 

 J. Bracebridge Wilson § has described and designated by numbers 

 twelve species, with none of which am I able to identify any of my 

 species. But the characters on which Catenicellce must be grouped 

 are as yet scarcely understood ; and much change must be made in 

 the classification, as undoubtedly some of the names now in common 



* F. W. Hutton, Catal. of Marine Mollusca of New Zealand, Wellington, 

 1873; id. "Corrections and Additions to the List of Polyzoa in the Catai. of 

 Marine Mollusca of N. Zeal.," Trans. New-Zealand Inst. vol. ix. 1876. 



t "Note on the Fossil Polyzoa collected by the Eev. J. E. Woods near Mount 

 Gambier, South Australia," by George Busk, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c, Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc. vol. xvi. 1860, p. 260. 



| Fossile Bryozoen aus dem tert. Griinsandstein der Orakei Bay bei Auck- 

 land, von Dr. Ferd. Stoliczka, 1864. 



§ " Fossil Catenicellse from the Miocene beds at Bird Rock, near Geelong," 

 Journ. Micr. Soc. Victoria, vol. i. nos. 2, 3, p. 60. 



