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lived to the present day. Since their time a new chapter of the 

 geological recoi'd has been opened. In the Midland Counties large 

 formations have been discovered that bear a much closer relation 

 to the Charuwood rocks than do the Lower Cambrians of Nortli. 

 Wales. Professor Hull states that the publication of these results 

 has not led him to alter his opinion. But has he examined the 

 new evidence ? Has he studied the Uriconian slates and grits of 

 Shropshire? Does he know the slaty rocks of the Herefordshire 

 Beacon, near Malvern, which in 1880 1 correlated with the Salopian 

 pre-Cambrians ? Professor Bonney and the Rev. E. Hill have, 

 demonstrated that the Cliarnwood elastics are of volcanic origin, 

 and Mr. Allport has done the same for the Uriconian of Shropshire. 

 Both in hand-specimens and in microscopic slides the rocks of 

 Cliarnwood and of Shropshire evince the most marked similarity. 

 The slates and grits of the Lower Cambrian of North Wales, on the 

 other hand, are ordinary sediments. Macroscopically, they are 

 somewhat like the Charnwood elastics ; microscopically, they are 

 widely different. As Sedgwick and Jukes did not study these rocks 

 under the microscope, they were naturally unaware of this difference. 

 Professor Hull has survived to a happier epoch, and he can judge 

 for himself. He would also find it an interesting task to study 

 the basal Cambrian strata that Professor Lapworth has discovered in 

 Warwickshire, and the volcanic rocks that underlie them. After he 

 has done so, he will find it hard to believe that the shales and 

 quartzites of Nuneaton are the equivalents of the ash-beds and 

 agglomerates of Charnwood. Why Professor Hull should go 90 

 miles off to correlate the Charnwood elastics with rocks which but 

 superficially resemble them, when he can find formations that really 

 do resemble them within half that distance, is a problem that I must 

 leave the Professor himself to solve. C. Callaway. 



Sandore, "Wellington, Salop, ^th February, 1895. 



DESTRUCTION OF ECGLES CHURCH, ON THE NORFOLK COAST. 

 Sir, — An ancient landmark on the coast of Norfolk, one well 

 known to readers of Lyell's " Principles of Geology," has been 

 destroyed by the breakers during a severe storm, on January 23rd 

 of this year. The old tower of Eccles church has for many years 

 remained as a witness to the destruction of our shores. Since 

 the Conquest, the greater part of the village of Eccles, between 

 Happisburgh and Winterton, has been destroyed. The church itself 

 was abandoned nearly three hundred years ago. In 1833, as noted 

 by Samuel Woodward, its remains were still to be seen partially 

 buried, as it were, within the "Marram Hills" or sand-dunes. In 

 1862 the hillocks of sand were drifted further inland, and the tower 

 of the church was left standing on the foreshore, several yards 

 below high water-mark, with the basement portion of the nave still 

 showing in places amid the beach sand and shingle. Now the sea 

 has beaten down the tower. It fell in a north-westerly direction in 

 the very teeth of the gale, the sea breaking furiously against the 



