82 PROCEEDINGS OP THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION. 
•over, as I stated to you on the reading of Dr. Goding’s 
paper, I have recently discovered one of the fossils obtained 
by Sir Robert Schomburgk from that formation in the mid- 
dle beds of the series at San Fernando designated by me as 
Lower Miocene. This shell, alluded to by Dr. Goding in 
his paper, the Nucula SohomburgJci of Forbes, was found by 
Sir R. Schomburgk in an isolated mass of rock in the Scot- 
land formation. This rock was described as being exceed- 
ingly fossiliferous, but the fossils were imperfect. At San 
Fernando this shell occurs in a greenish-grey shale associa- 
ted with several very curious species of molluska, which 
unfortunately cannot be extracted owing to their excessive 
fragility. The species are, however, all extinct, like those 
from the other beds at San Fernando, some of which have 
been described by me in a recent communication to the 
Geological Society of London. 
I shall now pass briefly in review the more important 
additions which have been made to the literature of the 
island within the last year or two. Since the publication 
of the Geological Survey of the island the most noteworthy 
work relating to Trinidad which has appeared is that on the 
Birds by Dr. Leotaud, member of this Association. At our 
meeting in August last I had the pleasure of exhibiting to 
you a copy of this work, and I took the opportunity to lay 
before you a few remarks on the results attained in that 
book, chiefly as to distribution of the birds. You were 
good enough on that occasion to ask me to draw up those 
remarks for publication in your Journal. I shall there- 
fore ask your indulgence whilst I place them again before 
you. As I observed upon the occasion referred to, this 
book is one that does much honor to its lamented author, 
and through him to the community. Had even our fauna 
