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Abstract. 
On the Potton Sands. By Mr. H. G. Suzuey, F.G.S. 
THE author described the English deposits between the Kim- 
_ meridge clay and the Upper Greensand and Gault ; especially 
as seen in the sections from Hunstanton to Oxford and Farring- 
don. The author proposed to restrict the name “ Carstone ” to 
the district where Sands are the only deposit from Kimmeridge 
clay to the Red Rock of the Wolds. He proposed that by 
Shanklin (or Lower Green) sand, as it is commonly called, 
should be understood the deposit between the Wealden and the 
Gault. But by “ Potton sands” he proposed to distinguish the 
strata which occur as sands between the Gault and the Kim- 
meridge clay. The author thought that they represented the 
whole series of strata from Portland sand upwards, and com- 
pared them with the German series described by Dr Oppel. 
The deposits are separated into Upper, Middle and Lower, 
the latter two being very fossiliferous. The fossils resemble in 
many ways those of the Farringdon sponge-gravels. 
The origin of the rock-material and of the fossils were dis- 
cussed in detail by the methods of the previous paper. 
November 26, 1866. 
The PResipeNT (H. W. Cooxson, D.D., Master of St Peter’s 
College) in the Chair. . 
The following new Fellow was elected: 
T. GwatkIn, M.A., St John’s College. 
The comparatively late date of our Homeric Texts. 
THIS paper was an attempt to show, that although the cha- 
racters and events of the Trojan war are undoubtedly of great 
