188 Reports and Proceedings — Geological Society of London. 



"While these caverns were occupied as dens by the hyasnas, 

 northern and southern animals commingled in the valley's and on 

 the great plains reaching out from them to the area now covered 

 by the Irish Sea. 



From numerous examinations made of undisturbed Glacial deposits 

 in Wales, the North of England, and Scotland, it has also been 

 proved very clearly that the extinct mammalia, whose remains are 

 found in association with the implements of PalEeolithic man in 

 caverns, must have lived there before those deposits had been laid 

 down, as their remains always occur at the base or in the lower 

 parts of the drift, and never above it. Further, there is not a particle 

 of evidence to show that the extinct mammalia ever revisited those 

 areas after the close of the Glacial period. 



The ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and the following were declared 

 duly elected for the ensuing year: — Coimcil: W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S. ; 

 Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, I.L.D., F.E.S. ; Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., 

 F.E.S. ; Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.E.S. ; F.' W. Harmer, Esq ; 

 E. S. Harries, Esq., M.A. ; Henry Hicks, M.D., F.E.S.; Eev. Edwin Hill, 

 M.A.; G. J. Hiude, Ph.D., F.E.S.; W. H. Hudleston, Esq., M.A., F.E.S., 

 F.L.S. ; Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.E.S.; J. E. Marr, Esq., M.A., 

 F.E.S.; Prof. H. A. Miers, M.A., F.E.S.; H. W. Monckton, Esq., F.L.S. ; 

 E. T. Newton, Esq., F.E.S. ; Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.E.S., F.L.S. ; Prof. W. J. 

 Sollas, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.E S. ; A. Strahan, Esq., M.A. ; J. J. H. Teall, 

 Esq., M.A., F.E.S.; Prof. W. W. Watts, M.A. ; W. Whitaker, Esq., B.A., 

 F.E.S. ; Eey. H. H. Winwood, M.A. ; A. S. Woodward, Esq , F.L.S. 



Officers: — Fresident : W. Whitaker, Esq., B.A., F.E.S. Vice-Presidents: Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, LL.D., F.E.S. ; Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.E.S. ; 

 J. J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A., F.E S. ; Eev. H. H. Winwood, M.A. Secretaries: 

 E. S. Herries, Esq., M.A. ; Prof. W. W. Watts, M.A. Foreign Secretary : Sh- John 

 Evans, K C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.E.S., F.L.S. Treasurer: W. T. Blanford, 

 LL.D., F.E.S. 



TIL— February 23, 1898.— W. Whitaker, B.A., F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. The following communications were read : — 



1. " On some Submerged Rock-Valleys in South Wales, Devon, 

 and Cornwall." By T. Codrington, Esq., M. Inst. C. E., F.G.S. 



The author describes various valleys in which the solid rock is 

 reached at a considerable depth below sea-level, on the sides of 

 Milford Haven and in the Haven itself; beneath the Tivy, Tawe, 

 and Neath, the Wye, the Severn, the Bristol Avon, the JDart, the 

 Laira, the Tavy, the Tamar, and other rivers. Jn the case of 

 the Dart the rock-bottom has been found at one place at a depth 

 of 110 feet below water-level, and in the case of other rivers at 

 various depths less than this. The deposits show that some of the 

 infilling took place after the period of submerged forests, and much 

 before this, for frequent cases of glacial deposits filling the bottoms 

 of these submerged valleys are recorded. 



The iact that in the Solent and Thames the glacial deposits 

 border the sides of the valleys, and do not occur at the bottom as 

 in the case of the valleys described in the paper, indicates that the 

 latter are older than the former, though they present features similar 

 to those of some of the valleys of the North-East and North- West of 

 Euiiland. 



