Mr Black's RcmarlxS on the Chessil Banl', Weymouth. 123 



and is likely to present still more obtrusively in the 

 future. 



Two photographs were exhibited, one showing the stream 

 of water playing on the bank ; the other, the flats of mud 

 formed by the operation. The accompanying illustration, 

 showing hydraulic mining, is reduced from an illustration in 

 Dr Brown's " Countries of the World," vol. ii., p. 5 (by per- 

 mission of Messrs Cassell, Petter, & Galpin). 



III. Ornitlwlogical Kotes: (1.) Buteo lagopus. Rough-legged 

 Buzzard; (2.) Anas clypeata, Shoveller. (Specimens 

 exhibited.) By John Alexander Smith, M.D. 



(1.) Buteo lagopus, Eough-legged Buzzard. — A beautiful 

 female specimen. It was caught on the 30tli November in a 

 rabbit-trap, at the Glen, Mr Tennant's property, near Inner- 

 leithen, in Peeblesshire. 



(2.) Anas chjjjeata, Shoveller. — A young male, shot near 

 Kincardine-on-Forth on the 13th of [N'ovember. I have be- 

 fore exhibited to the Society other specimens from the same 

 neighbourhood. 



Wednesday, 17th January 1877.— J. Falconer King, Esq., President, 

 in the Chair, 



The following communications were read : 



I. Remarlcs on the Chessil Bank, Weymouth. 

 By W. T. Black, Esq. 



The Chessil Bank of pebbles is one of the great sights for 

 visitors to Weymouth. It stretches in an unbroken line 

 north-west from Portland to Bradstock, for about ten miles 

 along the sea-coast of Dorsetshire. It appears like a huge 

 raihvay embankment, varying from thirty feet high at the 

 north-west end, to fifty feet at the south-east end, and is 

 from three hundred to six hundred feet broad at the same 

 bases at low- water mark. It is composed of a mass of 



