2 GEOLOGY. 



found 200 feet higher. On the E. side of the chain there are wide 

 areas of rock without any Drift. The author supposes that the valleys 

 on the E. side were blocked by congealed snow and ice, forming a 

 barrier to the great northern glacier, which was then deflected west- 

 wards. W. T. 



Andrew, Thomas. Observations on the Recent Floods in the Dawlish 

 Valley. Trans. Devon. Assoc, vol. viii. pp. 461-466. 



Describes the effect of an extraordinary rainfall on October 19, 1875, 

 when 3-26 inches fell in 3 hours at Exeter ; and shows that the presence 

 of boulders in the valloy near Dawlish may be due to the action of 

 water, and not of ice. T. M. H. 



Anon. [H. Woodward.] Glacial Deposits at York. Geol. Mag, 



dec. ii. vol. iii. p. 384. 

 Notice of photographs of sections in railway-cuttings. 



. On some interesting Remains at Borness, Kirkcudbrightshire. 



E. Sch. Klines Mag. vol. i. pp. 31, 32. 



Notice of a cave about 25 feet above high-water mark, containing 



bones of existing species and human remains. (Chiefly from a paper in 



Proc. Ant. Scot. vol. x., by A. J. Corrie, W, Bruce-Clarke, and A. R. 



Hunt.) W. T. 



Field Meeting (at Watford). Trans. Watford Nat. Hist. 



Soc. vol. i. pt. iii. pp. xv, xvi. [See Geological Record for 1875, 

 p. 2.] 

 Notes the Drift, Chalk, and Chalk-springs at Otterspool. 



. Field Meetings. — Colne Valley Water Works, Bushey Kiln, 



and Watford Heath Kiln. — Aldbury, Ashridge Park, and Berk- 

 hampstead. Trans. Watford Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. i. pt. iv. pp. xviii, 

 xix, xxi. 



The Chalk, Lower Tertiaries, and Glacial Drift were examined. 



A Tertiary outlier, capped with Drift, at Berkhampstead. 



Excursion to Creswell Crags. Naturalist, ser. 2, vol. i. 



p. 174. 



Bones and teeth of hyaena, horse, &c. ; worked flints and charcoal 

 were found in the cave-breccia. 



[W. D. Roebuck.] Excursion to Coxley Valley. Naturalist, 



ser. 2, vol. i. pp. 175, 176. 



Mr. J. Tindall described the geology of the district, naming the 



various coals in a series over 1000 feet thick, and giving a list of 



fossils. W. H. D. 



[Notice of a Section at the Surrey Commercial Docks.] Sci. 



Goss. no. 133, p. 20. 

 The cutting is 40 feet deep, through alluvium, with a forest-bed and 

 gravel. 



