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Sandstone is the nearest deposit of that age, to the Devonian 
rocks of West Somerset, and although similarity of organic 
remains does not in itself prove contemporaneity in strata 
removed from one another, yet the parallelism of successive 
faunze is a subject of the highest interest. 
Devonian Rocks.—The record of all fossils from the Devonian 
rocks of West Somerset is important. The Rev. H. H. Winwood 
has recorded some observations on the paleontology of the 
Quantock Hills, but much has yet to be done. 
Carboniferous Rocks There is plenty of work to be done in 
collecting and tabulating the fossils of the Mountain Limestone of 
the Mendip Hills ; in doing for this rock what Mr. Stoddart has 
done for the Mountain Limestone of Bristol. 
Oolitic Rocks. The paleontology of the Inferior Oolite (Dundry 
excepted), of the Fuller’s Earth, Great Oolite, Forest Marble and 
Bradford Clay, of the Cornbrash and Oxford Clay, is but little 
known. A census of the forms of life met with in these rocks is 
very much wanted. Still less is known of the fossils of the Coral 
Rag and Kimeridge Clay developed in the south-eastern portion 
of Somersetshire. 
Cretaceous Rocks.—Since the days of Dr. Fitton but little if 
anything has been published on the Chalk and Greensand of Long 
Knowl and Kilmington, which are within the boundary of 
Somersetshire. A comparison of the rocks and fossils of this 
district with those of Chard would be of much interest ; par- 
ticularly taken in connection with Mr. Meyer’s recent comparisons 
between the Warminster beds and those of Beer and Black Down. 
‘No records, so far as I am aware, have been published of the 
occurrence of Upper Lias in the escarpment between Doulting 
* and Cadbury Castle, south of Castle Cary. Further south 
(although only in places represented upon the Geological Survey 
_ Map), its persistence as a stratum between the Midford Sands 
and Middle Lias is fully warranted by the researches of Mr. 
~ Moore. 
