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the districts in which the tertiary marine beds appear, some of them 
being from 2000 to 3000 feet, and others at a still greater elevation 
above the sea-level. The freshwater tertiaries of Lycia are much 
more extensive than the marine beds, and extend over the district at 
heights of 200 or 300 feet above the plain. They consist of marls, 
capped by flat tables of conglomerate limestone. The relative age 
of these tertiary beds is determined by the presence of both marine 
and freshwater strata in the two great valleys of the Xanthus, the 
former being identified with the Bordeaux miocenes, and the latter 
therefore being much newer than the eocene freshwater tertiaries of 
Smyrna. A considerable mass of travertine is found in the great 
plains of Pamphylia, and it forms cliffs of considerable height, through 
which the rivers pour. Certain recent changes of level were also 
noticed, which had attracted the attention of Sir C. Fellows. In 
conclusion, the authors consider that the scaglia, the formation of 
most ancient date, was deposited as fine sediment in a deep sea, and 
was in progress during the whole of the secondary, including the 
cretaceous, epoch ; the evidence of this consisting in the remarkable 
mixture of fossils observable in Mount Lebanon and elsewhere, and 
the great thickness, the extent, and the conformable superposition 
of the different beds. The sandy beds resting on the scaglia seem 
to have been more recent than the miocene marine strata, the pre- 
sence of which marks a great change in elevation. This change was 
more than paralleled by a converse one of depression, producing 
lakes in which the freshwater tertiary beds were deposited, and which 
have been since drained by changes in level still going on. 
A short notice was read, being the translation of a memoir by the 
Baron Leopold von Buch, ‘“‘ On a new family of Crinoidal Animals, 
called Cystidee.” 
The stony cases of these animals differ from Encrinites chiefly in 
the absence of arms and the presence of ovarial apertures in the 
plates. They are found abundantly in the lower beds of the Silurian 
series, chiefly in Scandinavia. 
A paper was read, ‘‘ On the Relation of the New Red Sandstone 
to the Carboniferous Strata in Lancashire and Cheshire.” By E. 
W. Binney, Esq. 
The author endeavoured to show that the Lancashire coal-field, al- 
though of great thickness, does not exhibit a passage upwards into 
the new red sandstone, but that it is a more perfect series than that 
in the west of Yorkshire and Derbyshire. He also supposes that the 
coal-measures are generally thrown down by the various faults, the 
dislocation being of some extent; that these measures continue un- 
altered beneath the upper beds ; and finally, that the lower portions 
of the new red sandstone are but imperfectly exhibited in the coal- 
field in question. 
ASIATIC SOCIETY. 
June 21.—Sir G. T. Staunton, Bart., M.P., in the chair. 
Mr. A. Bettington, of the Bombay Civil Service, read a paper “‘ On 
certain Fossils procured by himself on the Island of Perim, in the 
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