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nearly, if not all the upper beds, belonging to the latter.' He 

 goes on to shew that the secondary beds, where they come in 

 contact with the old Carboniferous Limestone coast line, are 

 metamorphosed, and that we may have a Sutton shore condition, 

 with beds of different ages in different locaHties. He gives 

 sections where there are Liassic infillings, and at Charter House 

 and other places shews that hundreds of feet down the veins 

 possess a Liassic fauna. A dry-land area is inferred from the 

 presence of several genera of land shells, the Microlestes, and the 

 bones of a large land reptile. Passing into Wales he shews that 

 the Sutton shore is only a local condition of beds, that are 

 deposited either on ledges or in basins of the Carboniferous 

 Limestone, and that as they retreat from thence, they pass into 

 the usual stratified conditions those beds usually assume. He 

 argues that only one or two of Tawney's species will stand, all 

 the others being Liassic — Liassic Shells and Gryphcea incurva 

 being found not only in the Sutton Stone, but in the very lowest 

 beds round the shore at low water. 



At Brocastle, from whence Mr. Mooke obtained the Corals 

 described by Mr. Dtjncan, he gives a hst of about 180 species 

 new to England, and altogether notices about 400 species, most 

 of which are new to the English Lias, though many of them are 

 found in the Infra-Lias of the Continent. 



Mr. MooRE enters a hearty protest against the adoption of the 

 term of Infra-Lias for beds below the Buchlandi zone, arguing 

 that our classifications should be based, not upon beds imder 

 such abnormal conditions as are the Infra- Lias beds of the 

 Continent, where often they are but a few feet thick, but upon 

 such sections as at Camel, where we have the beds in their full 

 development. 



The French aiithors, it appears, commence their Loioer Lias 

 with the Gryphcea incurva and Am. BucMandi beds, including all 

 below to the Keuper as Infra-Lias, to which they ascribe a 

 special fauna. Mr. Moore shews, as he considers conclusively, 

 that we have the fauna of their so-called Infra-Liassic beds in 

 actual association with that of beds higher in the series, in proof 

 of which he produces an Am. Bucklandi, and other Ammonites, 



