518 Zoological Proceedings oj Societies. 



A letter was read, addressed to Dr. Fitton, President of the Geological 

 Society, by Samuel Woodward, Esq., respecting some remarkable fossil 

 remains found near Cromer, in Norfolk. 



The authour notices the limited extent of the marine formation of 

 Eastern Norfolk, and is of opinion that its rejectamenta may point out the 

 boundary of a former sea in that district. 



The marine remains, denominated Crag, are found at Cromer, and 

 westward of that town, at Coltishall, and around Norwich. To the east- 

 ward of these situations, instead of marine shells, a layer of ligneous and 

 mammalian remains is found reposing oh the chalk. The authour con- 

 siders that a line drawn from Cromer, or a little east of it, and passing in 

 a south-east direction towards Lake Lothing by Lowestoff, will very nearly 

 describe the course of the antediluvian shore; to the eastward of which, 

 immense numbers of the fossil remains of the Elephant, Horse, Deer, &c. 

 mingled with the trunks, branches and leaves of trees, have been found, 

 even to the distance of twenty miles out at sea ; and on the Knoll-sand the 

 tusk of a Mammoth (drawings of which are annexed to this letter) was 

 found in the year 1826, resembling those recently brought to England 

 from Behring's Straits. 



Jan. 16. — An Appendix vras read to Mr. De la Beche's paper, on the 

 Geology of Mce, by the Rev. W. Buckland, D.D., &c. 



After bearing testimony to the correctness of the description given by 

 Mr. De la Beche of the immediate neighbourhood of Nice, the authour 

 communicates his own observations made along the high road from that 

 city to the Col de Tende, for the distance of about fifty miles. Among 

 other particulars he mentions that the hill on the south of Scarena, twelve 

 miles N. E. of Nice, presents a section of the green-sand formation, with 

 nummulites, turrilites, and its other usual fossils, alternately with compact 

 gray limestone destitute of fossils. At Mont Brause the same beds of 

 green-sand occur loaded with ammonites and belemnites. 



Feb. 6. — A paper was read. On the discovery of a new Species of 

 Pterodactyle ; and also of the Fceces of the Ichthyosaurus ; and of a 

 black substance resembling Sepia, or Indian Ink, in the Lias at Lyme 

 Regis ; by the Rev. W. Buckland, D.D., F.R.S., Professor of Mineralogy 

 and Geology in the University of Oxford. 



This specimen of Pterodactyle was discovered, in December last, by 



