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The marine formations contain ostrecB^ cerithece, &c. : a complete 

 list is added of the organic remains ; and from the state of pre- 

 servation in which the fresh-water shells are found, M. Marcel 

 de Serres infers that they lived and were deposited where they 

 are now found ; and from the resemblance of those occurring in 

 the upper and lower fresh-water beds, he concludes that the 

 periods at which these two formations were deposited were not 

 very remote from each other. 



The author considers all these formations to be more recent 

 than the Calcaire Grossiere, and ascribes the alternations of 

 marine and fresh-water strata to a return of the sea, such a sup- 

 position being rendered the more probable by the neighbourhood 

 of the Mediterranean, where similar returns are still known to 

 take place. 



February 4. — On this day, being the Anniversary of the So- 

 ciety, the following gentlemen were chosen as Officers and Council 

 for the year ensuing : President^ — Rev. William Buckland, F.R.S. 

 Prof. Geol. & Min. Oxford. Vice-Presidents ^ — Sir Alexander 

 Crichtou, M.D. F.R. & L.S. Hon. Memb. Imp. Acad. St. Peters- 

 burgh; William Henry Fitton, M.D. F.R.S. ; Charles Stokes, Esq. 

 F.R.A. & L.S. ; Henry Warburton, Esq. F.R.S. Secretaries^ — 

 Charles Lyell, Esq. F.L.S. ; George Poulett Scrope, Esq.; 

 Thomas Webster, Esq. Foreign Secretary, — Henry Heuland, 

 Esq. Treasurer, — John Taylor, Esq. Council, — Hon. Henry 

 Grey Bennet, M.P. F.R.S. & H.S. ; Richard Bright, M.D. F.R.S.; 

 Sir Henry Bunbury Bart.; Henry Burton, Esq.; William Clift, 

 Esq. F.R S. ; Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq. F.R S. L. & E. 

 F.L. & Asiat. Soc. ; George Bellas Greenough, Esq. F.R. «& L.S.; 

 Thomas Horsfield, M.D. F.L.S. ; Gideon Mantell, Esq. F.L.S. ; 

 Hugh Duke of Northumberland, K.G. F.H.S. ; William Hasel- 

 dine Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. L.S. & H.S. ; John Vetch, M.D. 



March 4. — A notice was read On the Bones of several Ani- 

 mals found in Peat, near Romsey, in Hampshire ; extracted from 

 a letter from Charles Daman, Esq. to the Rev. W. Buckland, 

 P.G.S. 



Mr. Daman mentions that the skulls of several beavers, as well 

 as the bones of oxen, swine, stags and roebucks, have been dug 

 out of the peat near Romsey, and out of tlie shell marl, provinr 



