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(/) Period of renewed great elevation possibly continuous with 

 period (d) in the far north. 



15. The Great Chalky Boulder-clay. Ice-sheet extending over 

 large area. 



N.B. — At some time during Periods (d), (e), (/), the land in 

 North Europe was raised to some 8,000 feet higher than now, and 

 this is probable date of completion of excavation of Scottish lochs 

 and Norwegian fjords. 



(g) Period of depression. 



16. Corhicida fluminalis Beds of Grays and Crayford. Mammili- 

 ferous beds of Sewerby and Hassle. Slight depression. 



Marine Gravel of Holderness 100 feet O.D,, Brighton, Goodwood, 

 etc., Kaised Beaches. Further depression. 



(Ji) Period of elevation over large area. Last great ice-sheet. 



17. Plateau Gravel of Norfolk in part, and much of the Thames 

 Terrace-gravel. Purple and Hessle Clay of Yorks. 



Shell-banks of Rockall, etc., show elevation of Iceland, Scotland, 

 Norway, to some 600 feet higher than now. 



18. Mundesley ' Eiver Bed ' near close of this period. 

 Probably the Raised Beach of Clacton, etc., belongs to a final 



period of depression (time of Yoldia Clay of Christiania), and in 

 Norway there was a subsequent elevation during which the terraces 

 in the fjords were formed. 



VIII. — A British and a Finland Meteorite. 



IT is of extreme interest to record that a meteorite fell near 

 Crumlin, county Antrim, on Saturday, September 13th, at 

 10.30 a.m. Although the British Association was holding its 

 meetings ten miles away, no one thought it worth while to 

 investigate what appeared to be a hoax, and it remained for 

 Mr. L. Fletcher to go over about a week later and secure the stone 

 for himself. We quote Mr. Fletcher's own account of this fall, 

 which appeared in the Globe newspaper : — 



"As for the stone itself, it weighs 91b. 5^oz. ; it is 7|^ inches 

 long, 6^ inches wide, and o^ inches thick. Its form is irregular 

 and distinctly fragmental ; there are nine or ten faces, each of them 

 slightly concave or convex ; the edges are rounded. Five of the 

 faces are similar to each other in character, and except for minute 

 pittings and projecting points, are smooth ; they show those large 

 concavities which are common on meteoric stones, and have been 

 likened in shape to 'thumb-marks'; the remaining faces are 

 different in aspect, and have a low ridge-and-furrow development ; 

 they are doubtless due to fractures during the passage of the stone 

 through the earth's atmosphere, possibly to the break-up at the 

 moment of detonation. A crack going nearly half-way through the 

 meteorite at a distance of an inch from an outer face was probably 

 caused by impact on the larger stone met with in the soil. The 

 meteorite is virtually completely covered with the characteristic crust 



