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WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN : 
I. EDITORIAL NOTE, 
BY 
THE HON. SECRETARY. 
To Dr. E. W. Prevost belongs the credit of having dis- 
covered the interesting deposit, which forms the subject 
of the following valuable papers. He drew my attention 
to his discovery; and when I had visited the place in his 
company I was able to confirm his opinion as to its great 
importance. With much energy Dr. Prevost then set to 
work to obtain remains from the deposit. These remains, 
as well as boxes full of the actual deposit, were sent by 
Dr. Prevost to Mr. A. S. Kennard, who had kindly under- 
taken to work them out. More than that, he secured the 
valuable co-operation of the other eminent specialists 
whose labours have given us the paleontological paper. 
Meanwhile, Dr. Callaway had taken Mr. Mellard Reade 
to see the deposit, and had thereby ensured for us an 
excellent paper on the geological phenomena of this impor- 
tant exposure. For it is important; because there are 
few such exposures known in the West of England; 
because they are generally worked under great difficulty ; 
because such exposures give so much information con- 
cerning this country at a period of much interest—that 
which just precedes the dawn of our history. 
The discussion which took place when these papers 
were read brought another interesting discovery to light. 
A member who had just joined us, Mr. L. Richardson, 
stated that he had found and investigated a similar deposit 
