WEST INDIAN FOSSIL CORALS.

'Algerine,' and of Mr. James H. Kerr, of H.M.S. 'Acteon,' and the useful assistance of his friend Tskahara, a Japanese officer attached to the Dove.' The specimens obtained were collected in Japan during the year 1861, and were forwarded, with a few notes on, and sketches of, the localities, to the Geological Society through Sir R. I. Murchison.

The chief locality is Fossil Point, Tanabe, which district the author designates the "Italy of Japan"; he remarks that the cape of Tanabe is formed by a range of hills rising in ridges to a height of 590 feet, and intersected by deep ravines. On the sea-coast the rock is everywhere sandstone, and the reefs abounding in the bay are composed of the same rock; but he mentions a particular cave, at an altitude of 350 feet, which was in a hard, black, and lichencovered limestone. Wherever the stratification was observed it was horizontal.

The cape is further described as bordered by a plain, but a few miles inland the mountains rise to a height of from 2000 to 4000 feet; the hills on the coast are low and undulating, and the seashores are formed chiefly of iron-bound cliffs.

3. On some TERTIARY MOLLUSCA from MOUNT SELA, in the ISLAND of JAVA. By H. M. JENKINS, Esq., F.G.S., Assistant-Secretary of the Geological Society. With a DESCRIPTION of a new CORAL from the same locality, and a NOTE on the SCINDIAN FOSSIL CORALS; by P. MARTIN DUNCAN, M.B., F.G.S.

[PLATES VI. & VII.]

CONTENTS.

1. Introduction.

1. Bibliography of Javan Geo-
logy.

2. Geology of the Mount-Séla
District.

3. Remarks on the new Species.
II. Description of the Species.
III. Conclusion.

1. Emigration eastwards of the
European Miocene Fauna and
its influence on the contem-

poraneity of Tertiary Forma-
tions.

2. Percentage of Recent Species.
3. Affinities of the new Species.
4. Nummulitic Formation of India
(including a Note on the Scin-
dian Fossil Corals, by Dr. Dun-
can).

5. Evidences of Physical Conditions.
6. Age of the Tertiary Formation of
Java.

§ I. INTRODUCTION.

1. Bibliography of Javan Geology.-Until very recently the Island of Java, notwithstanding its having been a Dutch colony for more than a century and a half, was almost a terra incognita to the geologist, the only familiar fact relating to its geology being that it

* The specimens are in the Society's Museum; they consist of pieces of sandstone, containing a few species of the genera Turritella, Cancellaria, Murex, Arca, Cytherea, Cardium, &c., the shelly matter of which has been in every case replaced by gypsum. As regards their probable age see p. 63, footnote.-EDIT.