Bulletin 35 



204 



Page j 2 



PAPER No. 5 



ON SOME NEW TERTIARY FOSSILS FROM JAMAICA 

 Published in The Proceedings of the Scientific Association 

 of Trinidad, 1873, vol. 2, pp. 72-88. 



§ I. — Introductory Remarks. 



Mr. Vendryes, an ardent naturalist and zealous collector 

 of shells and fossils in Jamaica, has kindty forwarded to 

 me a fine set of the miocene fossils of that island. These 

 have been in my possession for some time ; but although 

 .several novelties are contained in the collection, want of 

 time and opportunity has hitherto prevented my working 

 them out. The high interest attaching to these fossils has 

 however induced me to draw up descriptions of the new 

 species, and to indicate those which although previously 

 described from other localities are now for the first time 

 added to the Jamaican list. 



The determination of the geological age of the Jamaica 

 beds and of the remarkable relations of the fossil fauna of 

 the Westindian miocene to that of Europe and the living 

 fauna of the eastern seas is strikingly supported by the 

 new fossils now described. We have a Murex, an Ovulum, 

 a Cassis and a Fasciolaria whose nearest congeners are 

 European miocene and Asiatic recent ; a Scalaria, previous- 

 ly described indeed, but from inadequate material, whose 

 relations are similar, and a Naticina, a genus almost 

 extinct in the Westindies, but whose present distribution 

 is along the path pointed out as that of the migration of 



