Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
Four years ago M. R. D. M. Verbeek, Director of the Geological Survey of the West Coast, Sumatra, placed in the hands of my friend Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., for description, a collection of fossil remains obtained by him in the prosecution of his geological researches in Central Sumatra, accompanied by some notes and sections of the geology of this little-known region of the globe.
page 385 note 1 See Geol. Mag., 1875, Decade II. Vol. II. pp. 477–486, and op. cit. 1877, Dec. II. Vol. IV. pp. 443–444 (Plate XIV.).Google Scholar
page 385 note 2 The Fossil Foraminifera, hy Henry B. Brady, F.R.S., GEOL. MAG., 1875, Dec. II. Vol. II. pp. 532–539 (Plates XIII. and XIV.). The Fossil Fishes, by Dr. A. Giinther, V.P.R.S., GEOL. MAO., 1876, pp. 433–440 (Plates XV.-XIX.).
page 385 note 3 This memoir and its illustrations are, like the former communications, published with the authority and assistance of the Dutch-Indian Government.
page 389 note 1 Not mentioned in the text of d‘Orbigny; but marked on his plate 257bis. as “Itocardia Guerangeri, d‘Orb.” In his Prodrome de Pateontologie Stratigraphique Universelle, vol. ii. 20 Etage Cenomanien, No. 290, p. 160, however, he enters it as " Opis Guerangeri, d'Orb, 1843.”
page 392 note 1 The teeth are referred by Dr. Günther to a Cyprinoid fish of the genus Hexapsephus. The dorsal and pectoral spines are referred by him to a Siluroid (also a freshwater form), and named Pscudcutropius Verbeeki (see GEOL. MAG. 1876, p. 440).