Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The fossils, which will be described hereafter by Dr. Günther, F.R.S., Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., H. Woodward, F.R.S., and H. B. Brady, F.R.S., were found in the years 1873 and 1874 partly in rocks of the “Padangsche Bovenlanden” (Highlands of Padang), Government of the West Coast of Sumatra, and partly in marls and limestones of the Island of Nias.
1 This Memoir on the Geology of a part of Sumatra, including notes on Borneo and Java, by Herr R. D. M. Verbeek, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of Sumatra, is introductory to a series of palæontological papers, descriptive of Fossils from the West Coast of Sumatra, to be published With Illustrations, in the Geological Magazine, by the authority and with the assistance of the Dutch-Indian Government.—Editor.