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REPORTS ON FOSSILS.—MIDDLE DEVONIAN OF THE 
BUCHAN DISTRICT. 
By Frederick Chapman, A.L.S., F.R.M.S ., Palaeontologist to the 
National Museum. 
(Plates XXXIII.—XXXVI.) 
Fossiliferous limestone from the Buchan District, Nos. 761, 763, 
country rock, Good Hope Silver Mine, near Mackieson’s, S. of Buchan. 
761 .—Atrypa sp., near reticularis, L. sp., but with a sloping hinge¬ 
line. Also Spirifer yassensis, de Koninck. 
763. —Spirif er yassensis, de Koninck, 
Fossiliferous limestone.—Spring Creek, near Buchan.—No. 762. 
This rock is largely composed of the corallites of Campophyllum 
gregorii, Eth. fil. (See Appendix, PI. XXXIV., Fig. 3.) 
Fossiliferous limestone. Road-cutting, allot. 18, Buchan. Coll. Mr.. 
A. E. Kitson.—Nos. 1001-1010. 
1001. —This rock is largely composed of the shells of a turreted 
gasteropod belonging to the genus Murchisonia (see Appendix, and Pi. 
XXXVI., Fig. 8). The microscope slides show also numerous carapaces of 
ostracoda, and sections of a trilobite carapace, partially cutting through: 
the proximal part of an appendage. (See Appendix, PI. XXXVI., 
Fi g- I 3 -) 
1002. —Corallum of Favo sites basaltic a, Goldf. sp., var. moonbiensis, 
Eth. fil. (See Appendix, and PI. XXXIII., Figs. 1, 2; PI. XXXV., 
Fig. 7.) Portion of a large coral of the above species embedded in, or 
conjoined to, a mass of reef material, consisting of small corals (. Favosites 
and Campophyllum) and brachiopods. 
1003. —A block of limestone largely consisting of the coralla of Cam¬ 
pophyllum gregorii, Eth. fil., and a few other corals, indet. 
1004-7.—Weathered coralla of Campophyllum gregorii. 
1008.— Campophyllum gregorii and a Spirif er, indet, 
1009-10.—Limestone, with abundant examples of Campophyllum 
gregorii. In No. 1010, one of the examples, incomplete, measures two 
and three-quarter inches in length. 
Duke’s Allot., Buchan Township. Coll. A. E. Kitson.—Nos. ion- 
1020. 
1011. —(?) Cyathophyllum sp. and Favosites multitabulata, Eth fil. (a 
young corallum of about 2 cmm. in width ; see Plate XXXV., Fig. 6). 
1012. —Weathered limestone, with fossils standing out in high relief. 
Containing corals, indet. ; Spirorbis ammonius, M. Edw., var. truncata, 
nov. (See Appendix and Plate XXXVI., Fig. 9); Spirif er yassensis, de 
Kon. ; (?) Athyris sp. ; Murchisonia sp. (See Appendix.) 
1013. —Weathered surface, showing indeterminate corals and Spirorbis 
ammonius, M. Edw., var. truncata, nov. 
1014. — Pleurotomaria sp. indet. 
1015. — Campophyllum gregorii, Eth. fil. and (?) Spirif er sp. 
1016. — Conocardium sp. A form with curved radial riblets and short 
alse. Probably referable to C. sowerbii, de Kon. (See Appendix.) 
1017. —(?) Campophyllum and Spirif er yassensis. 
