PROCEEDINGS’ 
OF THE 
SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION 
OF 
TRINIDAD, 
Part III.] [December 1867. 
Tuesday , 9th July , 1867. 
The Hon. Henry Stuart Mitchell, M.D., Ph. D* y 
President, in the Chair. 
William Henry Stone, Esq., F.E.C.P., F.E.C.S., and 
Eobert Hall Bake well, Esq., M.D., were elected Members. 
The following communication was read : — 
On the Tertiary Fossils of the West-Indies, with especial 
reference to the Classification of the Kainozoic 
Bocks of Trinidad. 
By E. J. Lechmere Guppy, F.G.S. r F.L.S. 
§1. Introduction . 
The desire to know something of the constitution and 
history of the earth wo live upon has always held a place in 
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