220 Geological Society. 



on the left of Lake Chaucliere, on the river Calumet and on the river 

 Gauanoque, about 18 miles below Kingston ; it is blended with ser- 

 pentine. 



June 15. — The Hon. William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, of St. 

 James's Square, London ; William Terry, Esq. of High Wycombe, 

 and Duke Street, St. James's Square ; the Rev. Richard Gwatkin, 

 B.D. Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge ; the Rev. 

 George Peacock, M. A. F.R.S. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge ; the Rev. Julius Charles Hare, M.A. Fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge ; the Rev. John Hutton Fisher, M.A. Fellow of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge; the Rev. Richard Sheepshanks, M.A. 

 Member of the Astronomical Society, and Fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge; and Major General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B. F.R.S, 

 &c., — were elected Fellows of the Society. 



A notice was read, " On some fossil bones of the elephant and 

 other animals, found near Salisbury:" — by Charles Lyell, Esq. 

 F.R.S. F.G.S. &c. 



Bones and teeth of the elephant, rhinoceros, and ox, have been 

 found for many years past in the brick-earth at the village of Fish- 

 erton Anger, at the distance of about ^ of a mile from Salisbury 

 Cathedral. Several pits sunk in this brick-earth show that it varies 

 in thickness in different places from about 10 to 20 feet. It bears 

 every mark of a tranquil sedimentary deposit from water ; but the 

 laminae are sometimes divided by thin layers of fine sand, or oc- 

 casionally, but rarely, by a layer of small flint pebbles. There 

 are no marine remains ; but land-shells are said to occur sometimes 

 in this deposit. The brick-earth rests upon a bed of chalk flints, 

 the greater part of which are not water-worn : and beneath these is 

 chalk, which is loose and rubbly in the upper part. 



This brick-earth is not connected with the alluvial soil of the pre- 

 sent valley, but appears to have been deposited when the valley was 

 at a higher level ; for it forms a low terrace, along the side of the 

 river Wily, between Salisbury and Wilton, rising 30 or 40 feet above 

 the present water-meadows. It is necessary at least to suppose that 

 when these beds were accumulated, the water rose much higher than 

 it now does. 



The bones are in a very decomposed state, but have no appear- 

 ance of having been rolled ; they are found in the lower part of the 

 brick-earth, and not in the subjacent flint gravel. And in one spot 

 there is reason to believe that the remains of an entire skeleton of 

 an elephant might have been procured. 



A paper was read, entitled " Remarks on some of the strata be- 

 tween the chalk and the Kimmeridge clay, in the south-east of En- 

 gland : " — in a letter to Charles Lyell, Esq., from Wm. Henry Fitton, 

 M.D. P.G.S. &c. — The objects of the author were ; first, to ascertain 

 in the interior, the existence of that remarkable group of strata, 

 which on the coast has been found to include the remains of orga- 

 nized bodies supposed to belong to freshwater ; and secondly, to trace 

 along the western boundary of the chalk the strata which imme- 

 diately succeed it. For the latter purpose, he gives a series of sections 

 at right angles to the outcrop of the chalk, on the boundary of that 



formation 



