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Corals, and Echini. These are probably the species referred to in previous pages from 
, Tule Island, and described by the llev. .1. E. Tenison Woods in two papers, “On a 
Tertiary Formation at New Guinea”* * * § and “On some Tertiary Fossils from New 
Guinea.”t He considers these deposits not as old as the Murray Fiver Tertiaries, or 
those of Cape Otway in Victoria, or Mount Gambier in South Australia. Although 
this is clearly a criticism of the previously published view of Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, that 
the New Guinea fossils are referable to the Lower Miocene, no mention whatever is 
made of that gentleman’s paper on the subject. 
In addition to the shells first described, the late M. de Miklouho-Maclay collected 
no less than thirty-eight species of Mollusca from a greenish sandy clay forming the 
nearest hills to the coast line, at the Village of Bongu, Maclay coast.J 
The specimens were determined by Mr. John Brazier, who states § that they all 
belong to species at present living in the China Sea, in Torres Strait, and around the 
Philippine Islands. The following is a list of his determinations : — 
Ranella alhivaricosa, Eeeve 
Nassa, Uquijarensis, A. Adams 
Nassa, sp, ? 
Mitra, sp. 7 
Oliva neostina, Duclos 
Oliva sidelia, Duclos 
Oliva, sp~ 7 
Oliva lepida, Duclos 
Oliva ispidula, Sowerby 
Oliva, sp. 
Oliva, sp, 
Terehva strmiinea. Gray 
Contis (fiendrocorms) glactis, Linn. 
Stromhus canarium, Linn. 
Sulla ampulla, Linn. 
Aiys cylindrica, A. Adams 
Atys cylindrica, var. elongata, A. Adams 
Atys, sp. 7 
Senialium longirostrum, Eeevo 
Ouliellus, sp. 7 
Corhula crassa, Hinds 
Corhula alhuginosa. Hinds 
Maclra, sp. 7 
Tellina (Tellinella) McAndrewi,8owevhy 
Tellina (Arcopagia) pinguis, Hanley 
Tellina {Fhylloda) foliacea, Linn. 
Tellina (Angulus), sp. 7 
Tellina {Tellinides') ,sp.7 
Tellina {Peronaa) scalpellum, Hanley 
Tellina {Strigella), sp. 7 
Tellina (Metis) spectabilis, Hanley 
Venus (CTiione) calophylla, PhilUpi 
Venus (Chione) imhricata, Sowerby 
Sions lullata, Sowerby, sp. 
Sosinia canaliculata, Sowerby, sp. 
Zeda pullata, Sowerby 
Area, sp. 7 
In the “Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales || I contributed 
a paper “ On our Present Knowledge of the Palaeontology of New Guinea, ’ from which 
the following extract ^ is taken, bringing the history of the subject up to date : 
During the comparatively recent Expedition to New Guinea in 1885, fitted out 
by the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia,** a few fossils were obtained which 
next claim our attention. From the head of the Strickland River an olive-green mud- 
stone was obtained, full of comminuted marine fossils, chiefly mollusca. The 
lithological character of the matrix points to volcanic origin. None of the species 
were nameable. 
From the first foot-hills of the Upper Strickland River a block of fane 
sandstone containing Fecten was obtained. This, Mr. A. J. Vogan, who was attached 
* Proc. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, 1878, ii., p. 126. 
t Ibid., p. 267. 
J Ibid., 1885, ix., Pt. 4, p. 963. 
§ lUd., p. 988. , 
II Vol. i., Pt. 3, 1889, pp. 172-179, PI. 29. 
IT P. 174. 
** Special Eecord of the Arrangements of the Exidoration of New Guinea. Proc. Geogr. Soc 
Australasia, fecial Vol., 1885, p. 157. ^ 
