PROCEEDINGS 



I HARROW SCHOOL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



Saturday, June IGtJi, 1866. 



The Fourteenth Meeting of the Society was held at the Rev. 

 B. F. Westcott's house. 



The following objects were exhibited : — 



A specimen of the " Woad " anciently used for blue dye by the Britons ; 



a White Variety of the " Herb Robert;" a Piece of Ferruginous 



Quartz ; the Hinder Tooth of an Elephant. 



By the Peesident. 

 Two Sea Snakes. . . . . Bt the Hon. R. Russeli.. 



Egg of a Garden Warbler. . . By R. T. Davidson. 



Models of " Force " and " Lift" Pumps. . . By W. Jekyli,. 



" Saxifraga Granulata," from HaxTow Weald . . By T. G. Roopek. 



H. J. Bidder then read the following Paper 



ON THE EOCENE FORMATIONS OF HEADON 

 AND ALUM BAY. 



The Eocene formation which forms the subject of the following 

 remarks is the earliest of the tertiary strata lying immediately 

 above the chalk. Three beds or basins of it are familiar to 

 Geologists, the Paris basin, the London basin, and the Hampshire 

 and Isle of Wight basin. It is of this last only that I propose to 



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