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Eocene.and Post Pliocene of the Paris Basin collection, and arranging 
each with the corresponding English beds, a really grand series would 
be the result; the separation would be but slight, and the Paris Basin 
could still be studied in its entirety, and yet fall into its more extended 
sequence instead of being as at present merely hung up by itself. Would 
it not, to take other instances, be an advantage to have the fossil fruit 
of the palm (WVifadites ellipticus) from the Brabant equivalent of the 
London Clay, shewn in a general Eocene series, instead of occupying 
a solitary corner? and the same remark applied to the crocodile bones 
from the French Oolite. Once more, when studying the Lias forma- 
tion, would not the interest and the benefit be increased by having side 
by side with our English specimens the series of fossils now banished 
to the limbo of Foreign Geology, which were brought by Mr. 
Dunlop, C.B., from a bed in the Himalayas, 13,000 feet above the 
level of the sea? For, after all, what was English and what was 
Foreign? This was a wider consideration than that relating say to 
foreign and English entomology or botany. 
The existing levels of the land, and intervention of seas, were but 
matters of to-day. The same Chalk formation bid defiance to the 
narrow strip of sea, and after forming its bed re-appeared on the Con- 
tinent. The same Wealden of which they were proud in Sussex 
extended into France; and should the Paleozoic rocks be reached in 
the Sub-Wealden boring, they would be-part of the same Palzozoic 
floor with which geologists and miners were familiar in Belgium. He 
would not detain them longer, and although he had thrown out his 
later remarks in an interrogative form, he had no desire to intimate the 
direction which the discussion was to take. Although, also, he had 
spoken of deficiencies quite as much as present possessions, the 
collection, even at this stage, was one of which the town had reason to 
be proud. That it and all the other departments of the Institution 
would increase and improve there would be no doubt, and he was quite 
convinced that the fullest discussion could only tend to promote the 
good of the Museum and Library, and along with it the best interests 
of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society, which this evening 
took up its abode beneath the same friendly roof. 
The CHAIRMAN proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Scott, for the 
‘paper he had read. He thought the members would agree with him 
that Mr. Wonfor had done right in putting a little pressure upon Mr. 
Scott to induce him to read the paper which they had just heard at this, 
