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— 6ft. 2m., top bed of lower gault, called the dark bed, but not quite so 

 dark as No. 2. It is very fossiliferous. One foot from the top coprolites 

 are found very round like marbles, or a smooth regular oval, and often 

 contain fish scales or crabs' legs. Am. Cristatus Zone, or Bed No. 8. — 

 lOin. The nodule bed or junction bed between the lower and upper gault, 

 containing manj' species common to both. Several lower gault species end 

 here, and several upper gault begin here. It contains large nautili and 

 ammonites. This bed and the next above are characterised by the presence 

 of Inoceramus sulcatus ; this has never been found in any other bed what- 

 ever, either at Folkestone or elsewhere. Even at Eastbourne, where some 

 other fossils have a different range from what they have at Folkestone, the 

 Inoceramus sulcatus is true to the nodule bed and the bottom bed of the 

 upper gault. Am. Yaricosus Zone, or Bed No. 9. — 9ft. 4in., bottom bed of 

 upper gault, called the half and half bed, because here and here only is 

 found the hybrid form of Inoceramus, which is in part sulcatus and part 

 concentricus, and is called Inoceramus subsulcatus. The half and half bed 

 is easily distinguished on the beach by its many soft impressions of fossils. 

 About a foot above the junction bed there is a seam of very hard marly 

 gault filled with Inoceramus sulcatus ; at the top of this bed is a line of 

 nodules and crushed I. sulcatus. Zone of Kingena Lima, or Bed No. 10. — 5ft. 

 lin. hard, pale grey, and marly, all the upper gault being marly. About 2ft. 

 Sin. above No. 9 there is a line of nodules with Plicatula. The upper half 

 of this bed is much mottled. Am. Rostratus Zone, or Bed No. 11. — Top bed 

 of upper gault ; pale grej', entire thickness being 56ft. 3in., or more than 

 half the thickness of the whole of the gault. At the base is a seam of 

 nodules with Pecten. At 35|ft. from the base there is a dark greensand 

 seam 3ft. 3in. thick, called by Griffiths the middle greensand, a term 

 adopted by Professor Price and others as very approj)riate. This seam, 

 which is at Folkestone 17ft. 6in. from the toij of the gault, is at Eastbourne 

 only one foot from the top. In this greensand nodules occur in lines, also 

 a small species of Inoceramus and various other fossils. The gault imme- 

 diately above this greensand is of the same marly character as that below, 

 only much mixed with grains of sand for the first few feet. Inoceramus 

 crispii, a large smooth species, occurs in the gault above the greensand. 



A paper was then read entitled " The Entomological Phases of 1879," by 

 Mr. Sydney Webb. He explained the general effect of the wet season upon 

 the entomology of the year, comparing it with 1877 ; and referred to the extra- 

 ordinary abundance of the Painted Lady, mentioning some of the reasons 

 for and against the idea that they were an immigration from abroad. He 

 also mentioned a few of the rarer insects taken in this country during 

 the year. 

 Dr. Bossej' read a paper entitled " The Life History of a Grass." 

 Oedinart Meeting, Friday, March 12, 1880. The meeting pro- 

 ceeded' to the election of a president in place of Mr. Sydney Webb, 

 whose resignation of the office was tendered and accepted at the 

 last meeting. It was proposed hj the Secretary, seconded by Mr. Linnell, 



