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ereat part of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. It is certainly possible 
that this bed might reach to Bridlington, and be abruptly overlapped 
by the clay, between the harbour and the place where the Chalk 
is forced up north of it, as the Lower Drift is undoubtedly over- 
lapped by the Boulder-clay at various places along its inland border, 
in the more southern counties; but the dip of the Boulder-clay to- 
wards the harbour militates against the Lower Drift, even if pre- 
sent under the clay, coming up at that place. On the whole, I can 
see no other tenable conclusion than that the so-called ‘ Bridlington 
Crag’ is, either a fossiliferous bed of the Boulder-clay (or Upper 
Drift), or else the base of the gravel that rests upon the clay, and 
extends inland to the foot of the Wolds, round by Beverley to the 
Humber, and is fossiliferous at Paull’s Cliff, where I collected a few 
of the existing Bridlington shells. 
The bed of cretaceous flint gravel referred to in Young and Bird’s 
‘Geol. Surv. Yorksh. Coast’ I take to be the stratum 6 in the an- 
nexed woodcut, although that bed is not really gravel. 
Mr. 8. P. Woodward, in his list of ‘Shells from the Newer Pliocene 
or Norwich Crag,’* includes, not only Mollusca from the Bridlington 
bed, but also from Chillesford, and from Weybourne, Cromer, and 
Mundesley, the marine beds of all of which, I think, can be shown 
to be in no way connected (in structure) with the Norwich Crag, 
but to form horizons in the Lower Drift; while the Bridlington bed, 
assuming it at the lowest—namely, the base of the Boulder-clay, is 
separated from the Norwich Crag by the Lower Drift deposits, pos- 
sessing, where they occur, an aggregate thickness of not less than 
250 feet.— Your obedient servant, SEARLES V. Woop, Junr. 
MISCELUANEHOUS. 
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HoNoURS CONFERRED ON MEN or Scrence.—H. M. the Emperor 
of Austria has been pleased to confer the Knighthood of his Order 
of St. Leopold on W. K. Haidinger, M. & Ph. D., &c., Director of 
the Geological Survey of Austria and of the Imp. Roy. Geological 
Institute of Vienna, ‘in acknowledgment of his distinguished scien- 
tific exertions and his successful superintendence of the Imp. Geol. 
Institute. The same distinction has been conferred on Professor 
Martius, of Munich, and on Professor Noeggerath, of Bonn, on the 
occasion of the celebration of their semi-centenary scientific careers. 
The Knighthood of the Imperial Order of Francis-Joseph had been 
conferred (on the 6th of last August) on Director Hohenegger, since 
deceased.—Cotunt M. 
M. L. Honenrecerr, born at Meunningen (Bavaria) in 1807, died, 
after a short illness, on August 25 this year. Having filled sub- 
* A Sketch of the Geology of Norfolk, by the Rev. J. Gunn, F.G.S.  (Re- 
printed from White’s County Directory, 1864, pp. 13, &c.) 
