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steps of four other animals from the same quarries ; and Sir 

 Phihp Egerton has given us a description of truly gigantic foot- 

 steps of the same kind, "which he terms the Chirotherium Her- 

 ciilis. 



Mr. Strickland gave us a notice of some remarkable dikes of 

 calcareous grit which occur in the lias schist at Ethie in Ross- 

 shire, and which had ah^eady been remarked by Mr. Murchison, 

 in his examination of the coast of Scotland, in 1826. They 

 appear not to have been injected from below, but filled in from 

 above, 



Mr. Williamson's "View of the Distribution of Organic Re- 

 mains in part of the Oolitic Series on the Coast of Yorkshire," 

 was the welcome continuation of a labor of the same kind al- 

 ready executed for the lower portions of the series, and promised 

 to be continued for the upper. Among the contributions to the 

 fossil history of the oolites, we must also place Dr. Buckland^s 

 " Discovery of the fossil wing of an unknown Neuropterous In- 

 sect in the Stonesfield slate." This stratum, the Stonesfield 

 slate, has, during the past year, occupied the Society in the con- 

 sideration of its fossils in no small degree ; but the speculations 

 thus suggested belonging to Palaeontology rather than Descrip- 

 tive Geology. Mr. Miirchinson's notice of a specimen of the 

 Oar's rock, which stands in the sea off the coast of Sussex, nine 

 miles south of Little Hampton, shows it to agree with some of 

 the rocks in the greensand or Portland beds ; and its thus belong- 

 ing to the strata below the chalk falls in which the remark of its 

 occurring between the parallels of disturbances which traverse 

 the Wealden of Sussex on the north, and the Isle of Wight on 

 the south ; for these disturbances and other facts agree well with 

 the notion of protruded strata between. The Wealden strata 

 themselves have been observed by Mr. Malcolmson, at Links- 

 field, near Elgin. It is remarkable, that these strata had already, 

 very unexpectedly, been found by Messrs. Murchison and Sedg- 

 wick in the Isle of Skye. 



I have also to notice Dr. Buckland's account of the discovery 

 of fossil fishes in the Bagshot Sands at Goldworth Hill, near 

 Guilford. As these fossils resemble those of the London clay, 

 Mr. Lyell's opinion that the Bagshot Sands were deposited dur- 

 ing tlie eocene jDcriod is strongly confirmed. 



