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PAPER No. 5 
OX SOME NEW TERTE 4 RY FOSSILS FROM JAMAICA 
Published in The Proceedings of the Scientific Association 
of Trinidad, 1873, ''ol- 2, pp. 72-88. 
§ I. — Introductory Remarks. 
Mr. Vendr3-es, an ardent naturalist and zealous collector 
of shells and fossils in Jamaica, has kindh' forwarded to 
me a fine set of the miocene fossils of that island. These 
have been in m\" 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 pre\'iously 
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 
