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Constant Prevost stated, that he had also during the Mezieres 
meeting, determined its existence in those districts. In i888, 
M. Dumont visited England for the purpose of examining the 
Silurian region; and on his return to Belgium, he laid before 
the Royal Academy of Bruxelles a table, differing from that of 
Dr. Buckland only in drawing more closely the terms of com- 
parison, and in identifying the two upper divisions of the Terrain 
Ardoisier with the Cambrian system. He stated also, in a report 
which accompanied the table, that the old red sandstone was 
most probably wanting in Belgium, or, if it exist, that it must 
be considered as a great development of the superior part of the 
Upper Ludlow Rock. In M. Dumont’s work, before mentioned, 
lists are given of the fossils from each system; and on examining 
them, for the purpose of determining how far the comparison of the 
Belgian and Silurian systems could be established by organic re- 
mains, the author of this notice ascertained, that out of twenty-two 
species, only four could be considered as peculiar to the Silurian 
system; and of these he believes two may be erroneous identifica- 
tions ; that five species are common to the Belgian beds and the 
mountain limestone, and thirteen to the Belgian and Devonian 
systems. ‘These lists, Mr. Lonsdale states, are small, but, he adds, 
they bear internal evidence of having been carefully drawn up with- 
out any preconceived theory; and he conceives that they afford 
sufficient proof that the beds from which they were obtained do 
not belong to the Silurian system, but partake of the same inter- 
mediate character as the Devonian limestones. The other case, 
alluded to in the paper, refers to the older beds of the Bas Boulon- 
nais. ‘These strata were identified by M. de Verneuil in 1838, 
with the Silurian series of England, particularly a bed of limestone 
containing corals and other fossils with the Wenlock limestone ; 
and M. Dumont, who examined the country with M. de Verneuil, 
states im his report to the Bruxelles Academy, that his four systems 
occur in the Boulonnais. The above bed of limestone, M. Rozet 
had also, in 1828, placed below the old red sandstone; but in a 
subsequent memoir, published in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles 
(xix. p. 145. 1830), he assigns it to the old red sandstone. At 
the Meeting of the Geological Society of France at Boulogne, in 
Sept. 1839, and at which some of the Fellows of the Geological So- 
ciety of London assisted, the identification of the Boulonnais beds 
with the Silurian system was fully admitted. When, however, doubts 
were recently thrown out respecting the age of the formations in the 
Liege districts on account of the nature of their fossils, Mr. Mur- 
chison, who was present at the Boulogne Meeting, stated to the 
author of this notice, that if the Liege country had been wrongly 
identified, the older beds of the Boulonnais had been wrongly iden- 
tified also. To determine the question, as far as fossils would assist, 
Mr. Murchison procured, by the kind assistance of M. Dutertre 
Yvart, a collection of specimens in the Museum at Boulogne. An 
examination of these specimens with published lists, proved that the 
inference was just, and that there exists in the Bas Boulonnais, the 
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