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CTGolo^i^ical Society, said : " I conceive that in a matter of arrange- 

 ment any arbitrary numerical character must lead to violations of 

 nature's classification, and can only be considered as an artificial 

 method to be used provisionally till some more genuine principle of 

 order is discovered " {l^i-oc. Gcol. Soc, ii. Go 7). 



Thirdly, I protest again against attempting to force false 

 analogies and inferences into our science by giving a conmion 

 name to beds so far separated as are the 1'ertiary beds of the 

 Mediterranean, those of Touraine, and those of the borders of the 

 North Sea. The equivalents of our crag are not to be sought in 

 Sicily, or in Piedmont, or on the Loire, luit in JJelgium and other 

 places on the North Sea, where common features will justify a 

 common nomenclature. The different geological basins or provinces 

 here named should be studied separately, and their l)eds should have 

 a separate nomenclature ; so should the subaerial and suljmarine 

 beds in each. My present paper is critical. My next one, if you 

 will have it, shall attempt something constructive. 



Henry H. Howorth. 



