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At the Norwich Meeting in 1868, he relates new discoveries 
connected with Quaternary deposits. In a fissure of an Oolitic 
quarry at Falkland, to the S. of Wellow, about 40 feet from the 
surface, he had found a “ drift” with a number of teeth and bones 
belonging to small rodents. Since then he had obtained many 
genera of the same mammals, associated with fresh-water shells 
and bog-iron ore, filling up a large portion of the fissures along 
the escarpments of the Oolites of Somerset and Gloucestershire. 
Whilst quarrying for stone at Falkland twenty-two hut circles had 
been destroyed, and he suggested (though without distinct 
evidence to prove his theory) that the material filling up these 
hut circles and that of the Oolitic fissures was of the same age. 
An abstract only of this paper was given, as customary, in the 
B. A. Reports, and it is much to be wished that he had published 
a more detailed account of his discoveries for subsequent reference. 
At the Exeter Meeting in 1869, he exhibited before Section C. a 
Teleosaurus temporalis, about 4 feet in length, from the nodular 
limestones of the Upper Lias, and gave a short account of the 
beds in which it occurred associated with other organic remains. 
A long report also appears at the same time “on Mineral veins 
in Carboniferous Limestone and their Organic contents.” On 
this occasion he seems to have been aided by a grant from the 
Association for the expenses incurred in the prosecution of his 
researches. The first part deals with the phenomena attending 
mineral veins and the various opinions as to their origin. 
Discussing the Plutonic and Neptunian theories, he inclines to 
the latter, dismissing the deposit of the ores by either sublimation 
or segregation. In support of the Wernerian view of the marine 
origin of these deposits he considers three conditions necessary ; 
1st.—The presence of the minerals themselves in the waters of 
the ocean ; 2nd.—Open fissures communicating with the latter ; 
and 3rd.—Favourable electrical conditions, with time for precipi- 
tation. From the organic contents derived from these veins he 
considered the latter to be of various ages, and gives a long list of 
