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of truly gigantic footsteps of the same kind, which he terms the 
Chirotherium Herculis. 
Mr. Strickland gave us a notice of some remarkable dikes of cal- 
careous grit which occur in the lias schist at Ethie in Ross-shire, 
and which had already been remarked by Mr. Murchison, in his 
examination of the coast of Scotland, in 1826. They appear not to 
have been injected from below, but filled in from above. 
Mr. Williamson’s “ View of the Distribution of Organic Remains 
in part of the Oolitic Series on the Coast of Yorkshire,” was the 
welcome continuation of a labour of the same kind already exe- 
cuted for the lower portions of the series, and promised to be con- 
tinued for the upper. Among the contributions to the fossil history 
of the oolites, we must also place Dr. Buckland’s “ Discovery of the 
fossil wing of an unknown Neuropterous Insect in the Stonesfield 
slate.” This stratum, the Stonesfield slate, has, during the past 
years, occupied the Society in the consideration of its fossils in no 
small degree; but the speculations thus suggested belong to Pale- 
ontology rather than Descriptive Geology. Mr. Murchison’s notice 
of a specimen of the Oar’s rock, which stands in the sea off the 
coast of Sussex, nine miles south of Little Hampton, shows it to 
agree with some of the rocks in the greensand or Portland beds; 
and its thus belonging to the strata below the chalk falls in with the 
remark of its occurring between the parallels of disturbance which 
traverse the Wealden of Sussex on the north, and the Isle of Wight 
on the south; for these disturbances and other facts agree well 
with the notion of protruded strata between. ‘The wealden strata 
themselves have been observed by Mr. Malcolmson, at Linksfield, 
near Elgin. It is remarkable, that these strata had already, very 
unexpectedly, been found by Messrs. Murchison and Sedgwick in 
the Isle of Skye. 
I have also to notice Dr. Buckland’s account of the discovery of 
fossil fishes in the Bagshot Sands at Goldworth Hill, near Guilford. 
As these fossils resemble those of the London clay, Mr. Liyell’s 
opinion that the Bagshot Sands were deposited during the eocene 
period is strongly confirmed. 
The freshwater beds of the Isle of Wight, which had already 
supplied specimens of some of the Pachydermata of the Paris basin, 
have furnished an additional supply of rich fossils, which have been 
