324 Reports and Proceedings. 
nary Members have been held on the first Tuesday in each month, 
and the papers read at these meetings have been issued quarterly in 
the Transactions of the Society. The present Member-list shows 
35 Honorary, 125 Ordinary, paying one guinea per annum, and 22+ 
Field-club Members, paying five shillings a year. The income for 
the past year has been £177 9s. 6d., and the expenditure £161 3s. Od., 
leaving a balance in hand of £16 6s. 6d. 
Earl Dudley was re-elected President, and Mr. John Jones Secre- 
tary. The Committee for the ensuing year was also elected; and 
after votes of thanks to the late Committee and the Chairman, the 
proceedings terminated. 
Norwicu GeroLocicaL Socrety.—At the last Monthly Meeting 
of the above Society, the Rev. John(Gunn, President, in the chair, 
the various objects which lay on the table for examination were 
commented upon. The first was a portion of a bovine or cervine cra- 
nium, with horns attached, from the collection of Miss Gurney. A 
discussion took place respecting a fossil tooth, found in the river- 
mud, near the Cow Tower, and presented many years ago to the 
Norwich Museum. It was thought to be the tusk of a large species 
of Boar.—Mr. Williams exhibited two vertebre of Platax, and a 
piece of Lignite, from Bramerton. Mr. Gunn stated that he had 
lately discovered a fine tooth of the Mastodon at Horstead. A 
paper, by Mr. Taytor, was then read, On a Displacement of the Chalk 
at Whitlingham. After offering some general observations on the 
physical characters of the Chalk, Mr. Taylor said—The ‘ White 
House’ at Whitlingham is so well known to all Norwich people, that 
nothing further need be said concerning it. If a person, starting 
thence, should walk along the river-side, he will see on his right | 
hand several quarries, all of which are now deserted except one. 
Here the Chalk-beds come up, and are, in many places, capped with 
about four inches of Norwich Crag, containing the usual marine 
shells. ‘The Chalk-beds appear to lie in nearly a horizontal position 
generally. A new cutting, however, which has recently been made 
during the alterations in the grounds of Mr. Harvey, reveals a very 
interesting phenomenon. At this section the layers of Chalk, in- 
stead of lying horizontally, form an anticlinal or saddle-shaped ridge. 
Both the layers of Chalk, as marked by the tbin film of oxide of 
iron which usually coats them, and the bands of flint, pass right 
over, and form the ridge above alluded to. In fact, this single chalk- 
quarry affords indications of a disturbance which has taken place in 
the strata. From a further examination, it may be seen that the 
bands and layers of flint are not shattered, neither are the strata at 
all broken. It will be further seen that the sand- and gravel-beds 
which overlie the Chalk do not seem to have partaken of any of the 
disturbances of the beds upon which they rest, but le in the position 
in which they were originally deposited. Hence it is evident that 
the above disturbance took place before either the formation of the 
Norwich Crag, or the deposition of the Drift-beds.—Worwich Mer- 
cury. 
