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covers some inland country, but, as is clear from his description, 
he limits himself to the coast, and did not attempt to trace the faults 
inland, so that no arguments can be founded on the length or direc- 
tion of this line, any more than on the breadth of the zone shaded 
to represent the occurrence of this or that rock in the cliffs. At 
Hall Sands the chlorite rock is not seen in situ along the shore, 
though it may exist beneath the sand on the south part of the beach. 
But I do not believe that it would occur, as seems to be suggested 
by Mr. Somervail, further to the north, because before that it would 
be cut out obliquely by the boundary fault. 
To conclude :—as to the proof of a fault, I believe that if Mr. 
Somervail undertakes a microscopic investigation, after having gone 
through his intended course of study with that instrument, he will 
find that the strata are, as he demands, ‘thoroughly opposed to each 
other in mineral aspect.” While the result of field-work is, that 
beds of chlorite-schist and of mica-schist strike up towards a 
certain boundary-line, and seem to be there cut off, which is surely 
suggestive of the existence of a fault. C. A. Raisin. 
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MISCHiIGDANHOUS 
Tur New Proressor oF GEOLOGY AT OXFORD. 
We are much pleased to announce that Mr. A. H. Grezn, M.A., 
F.R.S., F.G.S., has been elected to fill the office of Professor of 
Geology in the University of Oxford, a post rendered vacant by the 
retirement of Prof. Prestwich. Mr. Green, who is a Cambridge 
man, was Sixth Wrangler in 1855, and was subsequently a Fellow 
of Caius College. In 1861 Mr. Green was appointed an Assistant 
Geologist on the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and in 1867 
he was promoted to the rank of Geologist; during his service he 
surveyed considerable areas of the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks in 
the Midland counties, and of the Carboniferous rocks in Derbyshire, 
Yorkshire, and other northern counties. Many Survey Memoirs 
have been written wholly or in part by Mr. Green, among which 
we may mention the Geology of Banbury (1864), and the geo- 
logical descriptions of the country around Stockport (1866), 
Tadcaster (1870), Dewsbury (1871), Barnsley (1878), and Wake- 
field (1879). The memoir on the Geology of North Derbyshire, of 
which the first edition was published in 1869, was written chiefly 
by Mr. Green, and the second edition, published last year, contains 
additions by him. His most important Survey work is the Geology 
of the Yorkshire Coal-field (1878). 
In 1874 Mr. Green was appointed Professor of Geology in the 
Yorkshire College at Leeds, and while he completed some official 
Survey work after that date, he also published in 1876 a Manual 
of Physical Geology, a work which has taken a leading place as a 
text-book for students and teachers on this branch of the science ; 
a third edition was issued in 1882. We may mention that for 
several years Mr. Green held the Lectureship on Geology at the 
School of Military Engineering at Chatham; until the authorities at 
