522 Meeting of the British Association. | Oct., 
Extinct and Living Reptiles.” Having described the general 
characters and the classification of the Reptilia, he showed that the 
Pterodactyles stood at the head of the class, beimg more highly 
organized than any other reptiles, living or extinct. He wished it 
to be understood, not that they were birds, but that they possessed 
ornithic affinities. 
In his paper “On the Skull and Bones of Iguanodon,” the 
Rey. W. Fox detailed at some length the anatomical structure of 
the teeth and bones, and expressed his belief that the skull recently 
discovered in the Isle of Wight belonged to a new species. 
The aim of Mr. Jeck’s paper “On the Ferruginous Sandstone 
of the Lower Oolite near Northampton,” was to make the following 
suggestion respecting its mode of formation :—that large rivers 
carried sand and mud and a solution of iron into a large estuary ; 
that after some time subsidence carried the area into deep water, 
where shells characteristic of such conditions were deposited ; that 
this was succeeded by upheaval, when shallow-water shells and 
ferruginous matters were accumulated, and that finally the whole 
was covered with sand. 
M. Coquand’s paper “ On the Cretaceous Strata of England and 
the North of France, compared with those of the West, South-west, 
and South of France, and North Africa,” contained a detailed 
account of the characters and fossils of the deposits in the localities 
named, and referred to their differences at some length. 
Mr. Rose read a communication “ On the Thickness of the Chalk 
in Norfolk,” as indicated by well borings in various parts of the 
county. 
A contribution by Mr. H. M. Jenkins, “ On the Tertiary 
Deposits of Victoria,” contained a careful description of the strata 
in various localities, and especially on the coast south-west of Port 
Philip. It may be stated generally that the Tertiary deposits were 
accumulated in a trough in Mesozoic beds, that they were after- 
wards contorted and denuded, and that the trough, now deeper and 
probably narrower, was refilled with Post-pliocene standstone. The 
Tertiary fossils were corals, echinoderms, and innumerable species 
of shells and polyzoa. 
The suggestion of the President met with a full response in a 
large number of papers on local geology, which showed that East 
Anglia contains many unsolved problems. Amongst these commu- 
nications were those by the Rev. O. Fisher “ On the Denudations 
of West Norfolk,” Messrs. Wood and Harmer “On the Glacial 
Structure of Norfolk and Suffolk,” Mr. G. Maw “ On the Sequence 
of Deposits in Norfolk and Suffolk,” Mr. J. E. Taylor “On the 
Norwich Crags and their relation to the Mammaliferous Beds,” 
