Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land; Accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections and Diagrams, and Figures of the Organic Rema

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...marking the original extension of the mouths. Locality Spring Hill, Mount Wellington, Eastern Marshes, Van Diemen's Land. Fenestella internata. (PL IX. fig. 2--2b.) "Cup-shaped; celluliferous surface internal; branches dichotomous, compressed, breadth variable; meshes oblong, narrow; rows of cells 2--5, divided by longitudinal ridges; transverse connecting processes shut, without cells; non-cellular surface, inner layer sharply fibrous, outer layer minutely granular." (Appendix to Mr. Darwin's work, p. 165.) Locality Mount Wellington, Van Diemen's Land; St. Patrick's Plains, Raymond Terrace, New South Wales. Fenestella fossula. (PL IX. fig. 1, la.) "Cup-shaped; celluliferous surface internal; branches dichotomous, slender; meshes oval; rows of cells two; transverse processes non-cellular; inner layer of non-celluliferous surface minutely fibrous, external layer smooth or granular." (Op. cit. p. 166.) Locality.--Mount Wellington, Van Diemen's Land; St. Patrick's Plains, Raymond Terrace, New South Wales. Hemitrypa sexangula. (PL IX. fig. 4, 4a.) rt Network fine, hexagonal; meshes round, in double rows." (Op. cit. p. 167.) Locality.--Mount Wellington, Van Diemen's Land. MOLLUSCA. Mr. J. Morris, who furnished the preceding section, of Botany, with a valuable paper upon the Fossil Flora of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, has kindly favoured me with the following account of the fossil MoUusca found in my collection. CONCHrFERA. Allorisma curvatum. (PI. X. fig. 1.) Shell transverse, inequilateral, closed anteriorly, slightly gaping posteriorly, gibbose, front compressed, posterior side produced and incurved; beaks inflated, rounded, and approximate; surface concentrically marked with distinct but rather irregular sulcations, crossed...