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lower part of a are represented along the Cross-Fell escarpment, but 

 particularly at Roman Fell, by a series of sandstones and conglomerates 

 (the " Eoman-Fell beds ") ; these have been confounded with the true 

 basement-beds, and have also been described as Old Red Sandstone. 

 The author suspects that they may represent the Calciferous Sandstone 

 of Scotland. It has been found that in the north-west of England the 

 limestones of the Carboniferous series thicken towards the south-east, 

 and that the drifted deposits thicken and become coarser towards the 

 north-west. W. T. 



Gkeenwood, Col. G. Origin of the Fleet. [Letter.] Geol. Mag. 

 dec. 2, vol. i. p. 143. 



Gives reasons for believing that the Chesil Bank is not due to tidal 

 currents, but to the prevalent south-westerly winds, Portland preventing 

 the onward passage of the shingle. "W. T. 



. Why are the largest stones found at the east end of the 



Chesil Bank? Geol. Mag. dec. 2, vol. i. p. 576. 



Between groins the largest pebbles are carried by the waves to the 

 leeward end. Portland is a natural groin. Boulder Clay is formed, he 

 thinks, by storms of wind washing out pebbles into the clays. W. T. 



Guise, Sir W. V. Annual Address, 1873. Proc. Cotteswold Nat. 

 Field Club, vol. vi. pp. 63-80. 



The author refers to a communication by Mr. Etheridge, giving some 

 of the results arrived at by the Coal-Commission in reference to Glouces- 

 tershire and Somersetshu'c (pp. 64-69). 



The various field-meetings are noticed, and the following subjects : — 

 Dr. T. Wright's remarks on a new species of Uraster from the Forest 

 Marble of Road, Wiltshire (pp. 71, 72) ; and the caves on the Great 

 Doward, which have yielded large quantities of the teeth and bones of 

 Mammoth, Rhinoceros, Lion, Bear, Hyaena, Irish Elk, &c., with flint 

 knives and scrapers (pp. 72-75). H. B. W. 



. Annual Address, 1874. Proc. Cotteswold Nat. Club, vol. vi. 



pp. 91-104. 



Refers to Mr. Lucy's paper on the submerged forest-bed near Sharp- 

 ness (pp. 92-94). Notices the field-meetings, and refers to Prof. Buck- 

 man's paper, the object of which was to show that the Cephalopoda-bed 

 of Dorset is the equivalent of the " Gryphite Grit " of Leckhampton 

 and of the "Trigonia Grit" of Lineovers. The Professor further con- 

 tended that the sands beneath the Cephalopoda-bed in Dorset, for at 

 least 100 feet of their thickness, represent the Inferior Oolite beds of the 

 mass of Leckhampton and Crickley Hills (pp. 95-98). Mr. Witchell's 

 paper on the angular gravel of the Cotteswolds, in which ho attributed 

 its deposit to the action of rain and surface- drainage, but thought that 

 in some instances it was brought down the slopes of the hills upon a 

 surface of frozen snow, is also noticed (p. 98). H. B. W. 



GuNN, John. On the Probability of finding Coal in the Eastern 

 Counties. (Norwich Geol, Soc.) Norwich Mercury, no. 8372, 



