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superincumbent bed except vegetable mould, it must belong to 
the diluvium ; and on examination I could find no perfect shells; 
all appeared to me to be waterworn and broken into fragments, 
and to have been transported from some other deposit. 
I have shown Mr. Charlesworth the note I made at the 
time on the lower bed, which is as follows: ** From the or- 
ganic remains resembling those of Malta, figured by Scilla, 
in his Corporibus Marinis, &c., 1 am inclined to think the 
sheils of this bed much newer than those reposing on them.” 
This opinion has unexpectedly been confirmed (contrary to 
Mr. Charlesworth’s conjecture at p. 92,) by the latest infor- 
mation from M. Deshayes, communicated to Mr. Lyell; by 
which it appears that a larger percentage of recent species 
has been detected in the so-called “coralline crag” than 
from perhaps any other portion of the great deposit. If such 
is the fact, and I have no reason to doubt my authority, there 
is an end of the question between my opponent and myself. 
The propriety or impropriety of calling the lower bed 
“coralline crag” is, I conceive, of little moment, and a mere 
question of words, and not of facts. What I contended for 
was, that it was not composed of corallines [corals] as that 
at Aldborough; and my opinion still is, that the use of the 
term, as distinguishing the epoch of any portion of the crag, 
tends only to mislead the inquirer. 
Iam, Gentlemen, yours, &c. 
Lakenham Grove Cottage, SamMuEL Woopwarp. 
Norwich, Dec. 4, 1835. 
XXXI. Reviews, and Notices respecting New Books. 
Newton and Flamsteed, Remarks on an Article in Number CIX. of 
the Quarterly Review: by the Rev. Witt1AM WueEweE Lt, M.A., 
Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. Deighton, 
Cambridge; and Parker, Strand. 
HE attention of the public has been lately directed with anxious 
interest to the character of Sir Isaac Newton, by an article in 
the Quarterly Review, founded upon Mr. Baily’s Account of Flam- 
steed, prefixed to an edition of his Observations, printed by the Board 
of Admiralty ; and copious extracts from this ‘ Account’ have been 
given by some of our contemporaries. 
The work itself not being published, but privately distributed, we 
have had no opportunity of judging for ourselves as to the value of 
the conclusions drawn from the letters of Flamsteed, and the grounds 
which they afford the Reviewer for announcing to the world, though 
with professions of regret, that the name of Newton is nolonger to he 
hadinreverence. From the appearance, however, of Mr. Whewell’s 
short pamphlet entitled ‘Newton and Flamsteed,’ we have now 
the satisfaction of finding that the subject has been fully investigated 
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