* cornish rost-tertiary geology. 



Pleistocene Notes on the Coast of Cornwall, near Padstow. 



'■' This locality was visited and described by Mr. Henwood in 

 1858. The several phenomena of blown sands, either loose or 

 cemented, with littoral and sand-hill shells, with an under-layer 

 of old vegetable surface, all occur there, but not with so distinct 

 relations as at so many other places on the Western Coasts. 



"In the greater portion of the paper tlie author argues out 

 certain hypothetical considerations, which, however, do not conduce 

 to any very definite views. In this communication, as in the two 

 former, the term Pleistocene has been adopted, but there is no 

 definite explanation as to the precise portion of geological time 

 which is thereby meant. 



" Abstracts of these communications will suffice." 



Such is the substance of the Eeferee's report. 



Having called attention to the state of the Eeferee system at the 

 Anniversary Meeting of the Society, on February 21st, I sent in 

 tlie following reply to Mr. Dallas's letter of the 19th : — 



Dear Sir, — I have to acknowledge the receipt of the decision 

 of the Council respecting certain papers of mine on the Pleistocene 

 Geology of Cornwall. In transmitting the papers in question to 

 you, I signified my desire that the MSS. should be returned, and 

 no abstract, however brief, printed in the Quarterly Journal, in the 

 event of the least abstraction being decided on by the Council, 

 except in the matter of illustrations, of which some were marked 

 as capable of being dispensed with. I now ask that this request 

 should be complied with, unless the Council decide that the papers 

 in question be printed in full, after consideration of the accom- 

 panying memoranda, embodying my objections to the decision of 

 the Referee. — I am. Sir, yours faithfully, W. A. E. Ussher. 



The following answer to the Eeferee was accompanied by the 

 original notes made by me in Cornwall on maps and in note book, 

 to vindicate the title of the paper to originality in substance as well 

 as in form. 



Answers to the Eeferee's Eerort on Papers relating to the 

 Pleistocene History of Cornwall. 

 In answer to the first objection, I have to adduce the Eeferee's 

 quotation of the words, " in a connected history of the Pleistocene 



