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Reade, T. M. Section of Boulder- clay, North Docks, Liverpool. 



Geol. Mag. dee. ii. vol. iii. p. 480. 

 Description of section, differing in two visits. 



Richardson, Ralph. The Ice- Age in Britain. Pp. 19. 8vo. Edin. 



From the irregularities of the bed of the N. Atlantic, and the evidence 

 of striations, concludes that Britain was united to Greenland during 

 the Glacial epoch, either by elevation of the ocean-bed, or by subsi- 

 dence of the deeper parts abstracting the water from the shallower. 



W. H. D. 



Ricketts, Dr. Charles. Remarks on the Country around the Wrekin. 

 Froc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. vol. iii. part ii. pp. 100-117. 



Describes eruptive subaerial volcanic rocks, running parallel to, and 

 from half a mile to a mile E. of the AVrekin, lying successively on eroded 

 Caradoc, May Hill Sandstone, and AVenlock Shale, and overlain by the 

 Carboniferous Limestone. C. E. D. 



Robertson, David. Notes on a Post-Tertiary Deposit of Shell- 

 bearing Clay near Paisley. Coll. Guard, vol. xxxi. pp. 415, 416. 

 Pull report of paper read to Geol. Soc. Glasgow. 



Routledge, R. Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century. 



8vo. London. 

 Pp. 260-266 contain a notice of the Channel Tunnel scheme, with 

 plan and geological section. 



Sawyer, F. E. Erosion of the Sussex Coast. Land and Watery 

 vol. xxii. June 24 ; from Sussex Daily Netvs, June 16. 



Paper read to Brighton Nat. Hist. Soc. The author believes that 

 much of the erosion is due to earthquake-waves, and gave a list of 

 those that are recorded since a.d. 1250. G. H. K. 



Shrubsole, W. H. On the Mill Hill Cutting, Sheppey. Proc. Geol 



Assoc, vol. iv. no. 9, p. 569 (Abstract). 

 Suggests that fragments of foreign rocks overlying the Bagshot Sand 

 of Minster may be of Glacial origin. 



Skertchly, S. B. J. Inter-glacial Man. Geol. Mag. dec. ii. vol. iii. 

 p. 476. 



On tbe Discover)^ of Palaeolithic Implements of Interglacial 



Age. Nature, vol. xiv. pp. 448, 449. 



On the Relations of the Stone Age to the Glacial Epoch and 



the Present Time. Eastern Daily Press, Dec. 



. [On Palaeolithic Implements found at Brandon.] Norwich 



Geol. Soc. Reprinted from Norwich Mercury, Nov. 11. 



These four papers refer to the author's discovery of Palaeolithic im- 

 plements at Brandon, in ])rickearth, which he thinks older than the 

 Upper Boulder Clay of Norfolk. The sequence of Glacial beds, and 



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