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tunities of criticizing these alleged discoveries in detail, will probably 
not coincide with Prof. Vogt in the high value he appears to place 
on them. ‘The discoveries in peat-bogs are also commented on by 
him in a whole chapter. We are not, however, aware that any new 
fact is therein presented with which English Geologists are not well 
acquainted ; and the same observation applies to ‘the chapters on . 
the Stone-period of the North, and the Swiss /7fahlbauten. 
We have endeavoured to place the opinions and facts of Prof. 
Vogt before our readers in a lucid form, and without any remarks of 
our own. It is more than probable that they will produce the same 
amount of controversial criticism in England that they have in 
Germany. The eleventh chapter, however, is unquestionably the 
best in the book, as it is free from the frequent slips of expression 
and carelessness to recorded facts which stud the ninth, tenth, and 
twelfth chapters. 
We cannot close this notice without a tribute of praise to the 
editor, Dr. Hunt, who has laid this readable and elegant volume 
before the British public. It might have been wished that he had 
added a few more notes to elucidate the meaning of his author, and 
had rectified a few more of the errors of the German edition ; but, 
taking the book as it is, we have no doubt that it will give great 
pleasure to all those who inveevgate the geological proofs of the 
Antiquity of Man. 
REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS. 
poe eee 
GEoLocicaL Soctety or Lonpon.—I. May 24, 1865.*—Dr. E. 
Meryon, Vice-President, in the Chair. ‘The following communi- 
cations were read :— 
1. ‘ Additional Observations on the Raised Beach of Sangatte, 
with reference to the date of the English Channel, and the presence 
of Loess in the Cliff-section.’ By Joseph Prestwich, Esy., F.R.5., 
Treas. G.S.—In this paper on the Loess and Quaternary beds of the 
North of France and South-east of England, Mr. Prestwich expressed 
an opinion that the break in the land between France and England 
was not the result of the last geological change, but that the channel 
existed at the period of the for mation of the Low-level gravels of the 
Somme and Thames Valleys, and probably at that of the High-level 
gravels. During a recent visit to the Sangatte Raised Beach, the 
author recognized fragments of chert in the shingle and associated 
sands, which he “aiienmed were derived from the iuower Cretaceous 
strata ; associated with them were fragments from the Oolitic series 
of the Boulonnais and two pebbles of red granite, probably from the 
Cotentin. These facts seemed to the author to add much probability 
to the existence of a channel open to the westward, and extending 
between France and England, anterior to the Low- and possibly to the 
High-level Valley-gr avel period. Above the raised beach occurs a 
* The report of this meeting was inadvertently omitted from our last number. 
