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ORDINARY MEETING.* 

 T. Chaplin, Esq., M.D., in the Chair. 



The following Paper was read by the Author : — 



VIEW OF A CHALK PIT AT HORSTEAD, NORFOLK, SEPT., 1, 1838. 



Showing the Paramoudras in their natural position, but so buried in 

 the chalk that the shape of each individual stone cannot be distinguished. 



ON THE ENIGMATICAL FLINT BODIES BEARING 

 THE NAME FARAMOUDRA AND WHICH ARE 

 ONLY KNOWN IN THE CHALK OF NORFOLK, 

 AND THE CHALK OF ANTRIM. By Edward 

 Charlesworth, Esq., F.G.S., &c. 



f\^ what materials is the Earth composed, and how are 

 \J those materials arranged?" Such is the brief but 

 most pithily worded proposition with which the late Sir 

 Charles Lyell commences the first edition of the small 

 duodecimo bearing the name "Elements of Geology," and 

 which supplemented his great work called "Principles of 

 Geology," the publication of which at once gave its Author 

 a position in the field of scientific research, and philosophical 

 generalisation founded on research, which no future progress 

 made in the same channels of human investigation is ever 

 likely materially to modify. Of what materials then is the 



* 26th Session. 



