158 KELHEAD LIMESTONE. 
any previous record of its geological strata, and he submitted 
it as follows :— 
2 to 15 feet Glacial Deposits. 
10 feet Purple Limestone. 
8 feet Grey Marl, unfossiliferous. 
10 feet Purple Limestone. 
6 inches Brown Shale. 
2 feet Calcined Limestone. 
11 feet Brown Marl. 
1. 30 feet compact Mountain Limestone. 
QUATERNARY 
PERMIAN 
CARBONIFEROUS 
Pe PAA % 
After describing the conditions under which the various 
strata were deposited, and referring to Annan as situated at the 
bottom of the great and widely distributed carboniferous ocean, 
and gradually rising to the glacial deposits of the present alluvial 
surface, he drew attention to the great gap in the strata where 
No. 5, the Permian strata, rests on the lower carboniferous lime- 
stone, where the series of coal measures must have been denuded. 
Notice was also taken of frequent patches of the mountain lime- 
stone calcined by volcanic action, No. 3 being completely altered 
by heat, showing by analysis 16 per cent. more impurities than 
No. 1. The latter is almost pure carbonate of lime (96 per 
cent.). He placed Nos. 5, 6, and 7 as Permian marine lime- 
stone, a determination that may require further confirmation 
during the summer, when the deposits will be more accessible by 
further openings during excavation. The fossils, which are 
abundant and characteristic of the Scotch lower carboniferous 
limestone, were then described, particularly those selected for 
presentation and accepted by the British Museum. 
An ANNAN REFERENCE IN THE D1ARY OF GEORGE Fox. By 
Rev. JOHN Cairns, M.A. 
The Journal of George Fox, shoemaker, apostle, and 
founder of the Society of Friends, is one of the great religious 
classics of the world—the extraordinary book of an extraordinary 
man. In it he gives an account of his spiritual experiences and 
of his wanderings, his preachings, his stripes and imprisonments. 
There is much that is confused in the narrative, and much that is 
provokingly indefinite ; but it is a real man who speaks to us from 
its pages, with a view and a message of his own, and what he 
tells us is, therefore, always worth attending to. But it is not 
