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NOTES ON THE BRACHIOPODA HITHERTO OBTAINED PROM THE 

 " PEBBLE-BED " OP BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, BY T. DAVID- 

 SON, P.R.S., P.G.S. 



The author had examined the specimens forwarded to him by 

 Mr. Vicary and others. None of the rocks known to occur in 

 England presented such a fauna, although in Normandy we have 

 a bed of Silurian rock extant containing the same. Mr. Davidson 

 could not account for the extraordinary mixture of Devonian and 

 Silurian forms, except by supposing that some old land had been 

 broken up. There were ten Silurian, ten Devonian, and fifteen 

 un described species of brachiopoda. Mr. Win wood, Mr. Vicary, 

 and Mr. Godwin- Austen afterwards spoke on the subject, the 

 latter gentleman entering into a popular detail of the occurrence 

 of these fossils. Mr. Salter was of opinion that when these 

 " pebble-beds " ivere formed there was no break between England 

 and Normandy. The fossils were derived from rocks which 

 occur nowhere else than in Normandy. Mr. Davidson thought 

 that at least one-half of the fossils found in the pebbles had been 

 derived from local sources. Mr. Austen said that Lower Silurian 

 fossils were found on the south coast of Cornwall. Mr. Pattison 

 thought that the remarks which had been made only bore out the 

 theory of Mr. Godwin- Austen, that a reef of palaeozoic rocks had 

 formerly stretched across what is now the English Channel. Mr. 

 Etheridge pointed out that the Budleigh pebble- bed lay on the 

 trias of Teignmouth, and thought that the pebbles had come 

 from Normandy. 



THE SOURCE OP THE QUARTZOSE CONGLOMERATES OP THE NEW 

 RED SAiSTDSTONE OP CENTRAL ENGLAND, BY EDWARD HULL, 

 P.R.S., P.G.S. 



The author referred to a supposed statement of Dr. Buckland, 

 that the quartzite pebbles of the New Red Sandstone had come 

 from the rocks of the Lickey, in Worcestershire. That geologist, 

 however, only said they were very similar to them. Mr. Hull 

 then proceeded to trace the probable origin of these pebbles. In 

 South Lancashire and Cheshire these conglomerates attained a 

 thickness of six and seven hundred feet. They were thicker as 

 we proceeded northerly, and the author therefore thought we 

 ought to look in the latter direction for their source. He pro- 

 duced pebbles from various counties, all of them liver-colored 



