226 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



The following Donations to the Library were laid on the table, and thanks 

 voted to the donors : 



1, Nova Acta Eegi?e Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 1877. — From the 

 Society. 2. Cones on Fur-bearing Animals (No. 8 of "MiscelL Publications," 

 by U.S. Geol. Survey, 1877). Also, U.S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey of Colorado 

 and adjacent Territories, 1875; and, Preliminary E-e])ort of the Field-Work of 

 the U.S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey of the Territories, 1877. — From the U.S. 

 Government. 3. Proceedings of Geologists' Association [London], Vol. V., 

 Nos. 3 and 4. — From the Association. 4. Boletin Meteorologico del Observa- 

 torio Central, Marzo, 1877. — From the Ministry of the Interior, Mexico. 5. 

 Description detaillee des Paratonnerres etablis sur I'Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles 

 en 1865: expose par Melseus. — From the Anthor. 6. Medical Examiner, Vol. 

 II., Nos. 103-106, inclusive. — From the Publishers. 



The followins; communications were read : 



I. Notice of a Recent Visit to the so-called Tropiccd Forest 

 Remains of Hampshire, at Bournemouth. By David 

 Gkieve, Esq., F.a.S. 



My attention was first attracted to tliis Tertiary deposit 

 while inspecting the Loan Exhibition at Kensington in 1876. 

 On this occasion several cases of beautifully preserved leaves 

 from Bournemouth were exhibited by Mr J. S. Gardner, 

 F.G.S., a gentleman who has directed much attention to this 

 subject, and who, in connection with the Loan Exhibition and 

 the Geolooists' Association, delivered a most iuterestino- lee- 

 ture on these Hampshire fossils, which is very fully reported 

 and illustrated in three consecutive numbers of Nature for 

 January 1877. 



Having leisure last autumn, I spent two or three days at 

 Bournemouth, and went over the ground which Mr Gardner 

 describes as the " Tropical Forests of Hampshire." I was 

 successful in gathering upwards of one hundred dicotyledon- 

 ous leaves, some of which I now exhibit to you. I thought 

 they might prove interesting, as we have but little of the 

 Tertiary formation in Scotland ; indeed, the only place I know 

 where similar leaves have been found is in the island of Mull, 

 but found under different conditions, the leaf beds there 

 being intercalated with volcanic rocks, and are attributed 

 to the Miocene period, and so posterior to the Hampshire 

 fossils, which, for good reasons, I think are refei'able to the 

 Lower Eocene period. 



