GTTPPT— TEfiTIAKY FOEAMXNIFERA, 
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Mr. Webbe’s literary attainments were well known 
throughout the Westindies ; and he has contributed to our 
Proceedings a paper “ on Weather and Weather Pre- 
dictions.” 
Tuesday 19 th December 1871. 
Henry William Caird Esq. M.A. was elected President 
for the year ending 30th September 1872. 
Tuesday \§th January 1872. 
Henry William Caird Esq. M A., President, in the Chair. 
The following Donation was announced : — 
44 Journal of the Society of Arts” Nos. 989 to 995— 
Presented by the Society. 
The following communication was read : — 
On Foraminifera from the Tertiaries of San Fernando, 
Trinidad. By R. J. Lechmere Guppy F.L.S., F.G.S. &c. 
In July 1863 1 brought under the notice, of the Scien- 
tific Association the nature of the asphalt rock figured at 
page 38 of the Geological Report on Trinidad. I then 
stated that I had discovered that that rock consisted prin- 
cipally of the shells of Orbitoides and Nummulina, two 
genera of foraminifera characteristic of older and middle 
tertiary strata. In the interval between the reading and 
the printing of the paper in which my discovery was com- 
municated to the Association, the same species of forami- 
fera had been detected in the miocene rocks of Jamaica, as 
noticed in a postscript to my paper. Previously however 
to this a few species of foraminifera had been recorded 
from the tertiaries of Haiti. The names of all these species 
