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I have now to call your attention to the deposit of fossil 

 shells discovered at Spring Vale, near Couva. By the enlight- 

 ened action of the Agricultural Society and the public spirit of its 

 Secretary, Mr. Tripp, this deposit has been examined and the re- 

 sults published in the Proceedings of The Society. In view of 

 this it will be unnecessary for me to go into detail on this subject. 

 But I will read an extract from the report and explain, so far as 

 I can by means of a sketch on the blackboard, the position of the 

 beds as regards the other formations in Trinidad. First I will 

 refer to the general diagram of strata where these shell-beds 



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occupy the position shown as Miocene. About one hundred 

 species of fossils are found in these and other beds of correspond- 

 ing age in Trinidad, the names being given in the report referred 

 to. At present, owing to the want of a place to exhibit them, 

 these fossils are packed up. It is, I believe, the intention of the 

 Agricultural Society to place them in some suitable Museum 

 whenever such becomes available. I have a few specimens to- 

 gether with other fossils I have collected, and it will give me 

 much pleasure to show these to anyone who will favour me by 

 visiting my study for the purpose of seeing them. 



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The Ditrupabed of Pointapier was noticed in my paper pub- 

 lished in the Journal of the Geological Society 1892. It lies to 

 the north of the cretaceous Ridge passing through the middle of 

 the Island, coming out on the shore at Pointapier. The rounded 

 grains of quartz noticed in this Rock are derived from the cre- 

 taceous sandstones. The fossil Molluska were mostly described 

 in a paper in the Proceedings of the United States National 

 Museum 1896 (Vol. XIX) by W. H. Dall and myself, and they 

 are again named in my paper on the Springvale Fossils in the 

 Proceedings of the Agricultural Society. The Foraminifera had 

 been previously enumerated in my paper of 1892, and some new 

 forms were described in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society 

 1894. From the exposure on the shore of the Gulf at Pointapier 



