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NOTES ON SOME NEW OR BUT LITTLE KNOWN EOCENE POLYZOA FROM 
LOCALITIES. BY GEORGE ROBERT VINE. 
Some time after my first paper " Notes on British Eocene 
Polyzoa,"* had been placed in the hands of the printer, I received 
from Mr. Alfred Bell another small packet of Eocene material for 
description. And quite recently (Feb., 1891), a few additions have 
been made by the same gentleman to the original stock, differing but 
little, however, from the first batch ; so I think I shall now be able 
to describe, or incidentally refer to, all the Polyzoa known to me, 
from the several British Eocene horizons. The Polyzoan fauna that 
will be referred to further on, is altogether unlike the species 
already described, and so far as I am aware most of the forms are new 
to British rocks, some of the species at least being more closely allied 
to the Cretaceous Polyzoa of France, as described and illustrated by 
d'Orbigny, than to ordinary Tertiary forms, British or Continental. 
The locality whence most of the forms are derived, Fareham, Hants, 
is also new to me, consequently I asked Mr. Bell to draw up for the 
introductory part of this paper a brief synopsis of " Hants and its 
Fauna," which I give below in his own words: — 
'• In widening the railway near this place (Fareham) a short time 
back, a deposit, containing a peculiar assemblage of mollusca, was 
opened up, including a large number of Brachiopods, Terebratula 
bisinuata, Lam., which at the time of publication of Dr. Davidson's 
Monograph of Fossil Brachiopoda, 1852, only two examples were 
known, collected from the Bracklesham beds and the Hampshire 
cliffs. I have since obtained other fragments from the Bracklesham 
sands. 
The Fareham Brachiopods are very local, nearly all double, 
much crushed and distorted, and appear to have been destroyed by a 
sudden influx of mud or other matter. Polyzoa not being, so far as I 
can ascertain, associated with them as they are with some of the 
other shells. 
* Proc. Yorksh. Geol. and Polyt. Soc, vol. xi., pp. 154-169. 
