480 Correspondence—Mr. Wm. Pengelly, F.R.S. 
The work will form a useful addition to our knowledge of that 
portion of the Colorado plateau, containing as it does suggestive 
remarks and deductions possessing much novelty as to the origin 
and combination of the causes which have influenced the land 
sculpture of the district, so fully illustrated in the nomerous wood- 
cuts and maps which accompany the volume. J. M. 
REPORTS AWD PROCHHDINGS. 
Tur Grotocican Society oF FRANCE. 
[HE Geologieal Society of France held their annual meeting at 
Boulogne during the past month, extending from the 9th to the 
18th of September. Prof. Prestwich, M.A., F.R.S., was elected 
President of the meeting. The programme for the ten days com- 
prised a series of interesting and well-arranged excursions, in which 
all the important points in the geology of the Boulonnais were fully 
explored, including the examination of the Devonian, Carboniferous, 
Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary strata. 
To render these daily excursions more instructive, the printed 
programme was» accompanied by four descriptive sections: 1, 
showing the sequence of the Paleozoic rocks from Blecquenecques 
to Caffiers; 2, the cliff section from Alpreck to Wimereux; 3, the 
Middle and Upper Jurassics as exposed in the coast section from 
Echingen to la Créche; 4, the Cretaceous series as shown along the 
cliffs from Wissant to Sangatte, with the overlying Quaternary 
deposit at the latter place. Prof. Prestwich read a paper on the 
Sangatte Cliff, in which he brought before the meeting the views 
he advanced in his paper reeently read at Swansea. ‘The meeting 
was well attended, and the members were hospitably entertained by 
the municipality, ete. Among those-present were, MM. Lapparent, 
Sauvage, Gosselet, Vaillant, Pellat, Rutot, Van der Broeek, Cornet, 
Briart, Donville, and Rigaux. 
It is forty-one years since the Society held their last meeting at 
Boulogne, when Dr. Fitton was the President. J. M. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE GLUTTON IN BRITAIN. 
Sir,—The following statement occurs in the second paragraph of 
Mr. Newton’s “Notes on the Vertebrata of the Pre-Glacial Forest 
3ed Series of the East of England” (Grou. Mae., No. 195, p. 424, 
Sept. 1880) :—‘*The oceurrence of the Glutton in Britain was first 
intimated by MM. Boyd Dawkins and Sanford in the year 1866.” 
There was, however, an earlier intimation of a British Glutton. 
The late Mr. J. C. Bellamy, surgeon, in his “ Natural History of 
South Devon,” published in 1839, gives a description of the well- 
known cavern at Yealm Bridge, about seven miles E.S.H. of 
Plymouth, which he had investigated with considerable care, and 
mentions the Glutton amongst the rarer animals represented by the 
remains found there (see pp. 89, 94, and 102; see also Trans, 
Devon Assoc., vol. iv. pp. 98, 102). Wm. Pencetyy. 
Torquay, 16th September, 1880. 
