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At the Annual Meeting, after the business of the 
Society was finished, and the Officers for the ensuing 
year appointed, the following Paper ‘“‘On the Geology 
of Warwickshire’? was read by the Rev. P. B. Bropiz, 
M.A., F.G.8. :— 
The Geology of the county of Warwick, though in 
many respects less interesting than that of other counties, 
still presents many points which are well deserving atten- 
tion. In order to make it understood by general readers, 
it will be desirable to consider the strata which occur in 
regular (descending) order from the highest to the lowest. 
A very considerable portion of this area is covered by 
drift,** often local but wide spread, which belongs to the 
low level and glacial drifts. The former are to be found 
along the valley of the Avon, and consist of the usual 
finer sands and gravels with mammalian remains. At 
Warwick and Leamington this gravel contains many 
liassic fossils and pieces of Permian wood, and when 
the Jephson gardens were being made at the latter town, 
several fine remains of elephant, rhinoceros, and other 
mammalia were obtained, associated with some land and 
freshwater shells. Similar mammalian remains were 
found at Lawford, near Rugby, especially a fine jaw of 
‘rhinoceros tichorhinus,’ now in the Warwick Museum. 
There are many other places in the county where drift of 
Nore.—This Paper is, as near as possible, the substance of a lecture delivered at the 
Annual Meeting of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archzological Society, on 
April 22nd, 1870. The Author gave the audience the choice of an extempore address 
or the reading of the Paper, and the majority being in favour of the former, that 
course was accordingly adopted. The lecture was illustrated by maps, sections, and 
diagrams. 
* At the Ford in the Parish of Rowington, there is a bed of fine red and lighter 
coloured sand, averaging about thirteen feet thick, capped by a thin irregular layer of 
pebbles, occupying a small area above the brook. It contains no fossils of any kind, 
and may, perhaps be the equivalent of the deposit (d) referred to by Mr. Lloyd 
(Proceedings of the Geological Society, No. 102, January, 1870, p. 207), as occurring 
at Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick, but here there is no trace of the Boulder Clay, 
though I believe the latter is present near the Asylum at Hatton. 
