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The predominance of simple fossil corals in San Domingo, and their com- 
plete absence in Antigua, were pointed out ; and it was remarked that the 
same kind of distribution occurs at the present day, pedunculated com- 
pound forms being very common around the northern Antilles, but rare 
around the north-eastern, although the corals are mostly of different 
genera to those found in the fossil state. The author concluded with some 
remarks on the physical conditions of the Miocene period in the West 
Indies, observing that the iXivaje shales and associated deposits are the 
remains of an ancient barrier-reef, and giving an analytical table of the 
affinities of the species, in which it was shown that the Pacific and East 
Indian element greatly preponderated. 
2. " ^N'otes to accompany some Fossils from Japan." By Captain Bul- 
lock.— There having been no geologist attached to the late surveying- 
expedition of H.M.S. 'Dove,' the commander of that vessel endeavoured 
to repair the deficiency, so far as his professional duties would allow, 
by collecting fossils, and recording their localities. The specimens were 
presented to the Geological Society. 
3. " On some Miocene MoUusca from Mount Sela, in the Island of 
Java." By H. M. Jenkins, Esq., F.G.S. With a Description of a new 
Coral from the same Locality, and a Note on the Scindian Fossil Corals. 
By P. Martin Duncan, M.B., F.G.S. — A short notice of the scanty litera- 
ture of Javan geology having been given, the author described briefly the 
geological and physical features of the Mount Sela district, and made some 
general observations on, and gave descriptions of, the fossils which were 
the subject of the paper, and which had been sent to England by M. Corn, 
de Groot. Of sixteen determinable species, only three are now known to 
exist, the remainder being new species ; but the fossils were probably more 
recent than this small percentage of living species would appear to indicate, 
there having occurred an emigration eastward of at least a part of the 
Southern- and Middle-European Miocene and Eocene fauna, as was 
proved by the identity of many species in the European Miocene, which 
now exist in the eastern seas, and also by certain genera being represented 
in that formation and the Eocene, and confined in the living state to the 
Indo-Pacific region. One of the Javan species being closely related to 
Vicarya Verneuilii from Scinde, the author was induced to investigate the 
claims of the jNummulitic formation of India to be considered altogether of 
Eocene date ; and he inferred that there was a probability of some of the 
beds belonging to a less remote period. This inference was supported by 
Dr. Duncan in a Note upon the Scindian Fossil Corals, many of which 
(unnamed by M. Haime) were shown to have Miocene and recent, but not 
Eocene, affinities. The author next referred to the diminutive character of 
many of these Javan fossils, and then reviewed the opinions of former 
writers upon the Tertiary formation of that island, coming to the conclu- 
sion that the Mount Sela shells were probably of late Miocene date, and 
that the plants described by Dr. Goeppert were probably newer than the 
Eocene. The fossil coral from Mount Sela was sho^ n by Dr. Duncan to 
be alhed to Astrcea quadrangular is, the habitat of which is unknown. 
