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the districts in which the tertiary marine beds appear, some of them 

 being from 2000 to 3000 feet, and others at a still greater elevation 

 above the sea-level. The freshwater tertiaries of Lycia are much 

 more extensive than the marine beds, and extend over the district at 

 heights of 200 or 300 feet above tlie plain. They consist of marls, 

 capped by flat tables of conglomerate limestone. The relative age 

 of these tertiary beds is determined by the presence of both marine 

 and freshwater strata in the two great valleys of the Xanthus, the 

 former being identified with the Bordeaux miocenes, and the latter 

 therefore being much newer than the eocene freshwater tertiaries of 

 Smyrna. A considerabl^«iass of travertine is found in the great 

 plains of Pamphylia, and it forms cliffs of considerable height, through 

 which the rivers pour. Certain recent changes of level were also 

 noticed, which had attracted the attention of Sir C. Fellows. In 

 conclusion, the authors consider that the scaglia, the formation of 

 most ancient date, was deposited as fine sediment in a deep sea, and 

 was in progress during the whole of the secondary, including the 

 cretaceous, epoch ; the evidence of this consisting in the remarkable 

 mixture of fossils observable in Mount Lebanon and elsewhere, and 

 the great thickness, the extent, and the conformable superposition 

 of the different beds. The sandy beds resting on the scaglia seem 

 to have been more recent than the miocene marine strata, the pre- 

 sence of which marks a great change in elevation. This change was 

 more than paralleled by a converse one of depression, producing 

 lakes in which the freshwater tertiary beds were deposited, and which 

 have been since drained by changes in level still going on. 



A short notice was read, being the translation of a memoir by the 

 Baron Leopold von Buch, " On a new family of Crinoidal Animals, 

 called Cystidea" 



The stony cases of these animals differ from Encrinites chiefly in 

 the absence of arms and the presence of ovarial apertures in the 

 plates. They are found abundantly in the lower beds of the Silurian 

 series, chiefly in Scandinavia. 



A paper was read, " On the Relation of the New Red Sandstone 

 to the Carboniferous Strata in Lancashire and Cheshire." By E. 

 W. Binney, Esq. 



The author endeavoured to show that the Lancashire coal-field, al- 

 though of great thickness, does not exhibit a passage upwards into 

 the new red sandstone, but that it is a more perfect series than that 

 in the west of Yorkshire and Derbyshire. He also supposes that the 

 coal-measures are generally thrown down by the various faults, the 

 dislocation being of some extent ; that these measures continue un- 

 altered beneath the upper beds ; and finally, that the lower portions 

 of the new red sandstone are but imperfectly exhibited in the coal- 

 field in question. 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



June 21.— Sir G. T. Staunton, Bart., M.P., in the chair. 



Mr. A. Bettington, of the Bombay Civil Service, read a paper " On 

 certain Fossils procured by himself on the Island of Perim. in the 

 Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Vol. xvi. L 



