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share of warmth, the climate of the northern portions 
of the globe was in a corresponing degree colder, and 
vice versa. But to do more than merely to allude to 
what has been brought forward on these subjects is 
beyond the scope of a paper like the present. 
In the above ]iaper I have confined myself to a very 
few remarks on those species of the mollusca from the 
Matura beds which are probably new. I have done so 
because I do not yet feel justified in publishing new 
specific names. Means of reference either to Mu.seums 
or to published works there are none in this Island. 
Our public librar)- scarcely possesses any but the most 
elementary works on Natural Science.* It is how- 
ever but fair to state that the Governors of the Colony 
have not always been indifferent to the claims of science ; 
and it maj' be hoped that the time is not far distant 
when some efforts will be made for the institution of a 
local Museum and of a Scientific Library in connection 
therewith. 
*See Criiger in Geological Report on Trinidad, p. 176 
