PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
Vout. III. Parr II. 1841. No. 79. 
June 2.—John Augustus Beaumont, Esq., of Regent Street, and 
William Vernon Guise, Esq., of Rendcombe Park, Gloucestershire, 
were elected Fellows of this Society. 
In conformity with Section VI., Clause 8, of the By-Laws, the 
names of the following Fellows, proposed by the Council to be re- 
moved from the lists of the Society on account of arrears, were read 
from the Chair for the second time :—Joseph EEOC Esq., and 
William Parker, Esq. 
«On the Faluns of the Loire, and a comparison of their Fossils 
witn those of the newer Tertiary Strata in the Cotentin, and on the 
relative age of the Faluns and Crag of Suffolk,” by Charles Lyell, 
Esq., V.P.G.S. 
In a paper ‘‘ On the Crag of Norfolk and Suffolk,” read in 1839 *, 
Mr. Lyell stated, that when M. Desnoyers assigned in 1825 a con- 
temporaneous origin to the Crag and the Faluns of Touraine, he dis- 
sented from the conclusion; first, because the per-centage of recent 
species then assigned to the crag, including the Norwich beds, was 
greater than that ascribed by M. Deshayes to the shells of Youraine ; 
2ndly, because almost all the fossils in each locality were of distinct 
species, though only 300 miles apart; and 3rdly, because the fauna 
of the Suffolk crag had a northern, and that of Touraine an almost 
tropical aspect, notwithstanding the geographical proximity of the 
two districts. In 1839, however, when he compared, with the as- 
sistance of Mr. G. Sowerby, a large collection of Touraine shells, 
and ascertained that the recent species amounted to 26 per cent., a 
nearly similar result to the one at which he had previously arrived 
respecting the red and coralline crag, he was induced to adopt M. 
Desnoyers’ views. As some doubts nevertheless remained in his 
mind respecting the localities and true geological position of certain 
shells assigned to the Faluns, and as he was desirous of determining 
the range Soares of the organic remaims of the English crag, as 
well as northwards of those of the Faluns, and ascertaining whether 
the fossils of the most northern of the Falun deposits approached 
_ nearest in character to the shells and corals of the English crag, Mr. 
* Proceedings, vol. il. p. 171, 1839. 
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