AT BRACKLESHAM BAY, SUSSEX. 



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I propose naming the coral (fig. 1), Astrea Wehsteri, after 

 the veteran geologist who has thrown so much light upon the 

 formation in w^hich it was found. 



A. Astrea Wehsteri from Brackelshftm Bay. B. A portion of the same magnified. 





Note by Mr. James De C. Sowerby, upon the Astrea from 

 Bracklesharn Bay. 



Five or six species of Astrea nearly resembling this are found 

 at Hauteville, and other places in La Manche, where Ceri- 

 thium Cornucopice abounds. The existence of this Astrea at 

 Brackelsham Bay is therefore another link between the Lon- 

 don clay of Hampshire, and the tertiary beds of France, and 

 would indicate a temperature progressively higher in that di- 

 rection, when the beings, the remains of which we now find, 

 were living. May we not hope that an assemblage of such 

 indications may hereafter show if any, and what, changes 

 have taken place in the position of the equator since the de- 

 position of these strata ? 



Camden Town, 

 Nov. 2Srd, 1839. 



