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I have now to call yonr attention to the deposit of fossil 
shells discovered at Spring \'ale, 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 Societ}'. 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, 
the.se fossils are packed up. It is, I believe, the intention of the 
Agricultural Societ}- 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 pas.sing 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 Mollu.ska were mostly described 
in a paper in the Proceedings of the United States National 
Museum 1896 (Vol. XIX) by W. H. Dali and myself, and they 
are again named in my pajier 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 
