'i CORNISH POST-TEKTIARY GEOLOGY. 



found in a paper, entitled '-'The Chronological Value of the Pleis- 

 tocene Deposits of Devon," Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1878, vol. 

 xxxiv. pp. 449-458. Finding the results arrived at by independent 

 studies of Devon and Cornwall dovetail, I felt bound to bring out 

 my views respecting the latter county, and accordingly recon- 

 structed the original MSS., giving the general results in the 

 papers here prefaced, viz. a General Description (Part I.) and 

 Classification (Part II.), and a separate account of the most in- 

 teresting combination of recent geological phenomena anywhere 

 to be found on the south-western coasts of England. 



In transmitting these papers to the Geological Societ3S in October, 



1878, I stipulated that in the event of any abridgment being decided 

 on by the Council, the MSS. should be returned to me, and no 

 abstracts printed in the Journal. On December 4th, 1878, brief 

 abstracts of the papers were read, in my unavoidable absence ; and, 

 considering the nature of the subject, I do not think better abstracts 

 could have been made, as far as one can judge from the resumes in 

 the fortnightly "Abstracts of Proceedings." On February 19th, 



1879, I received the following letter : . 



Geological Society, Burlington House, W. ^ 

 My dear Mr. Ussher, — The resolution passed by the Council 

 was to the effect that your two papers on Cornish Pleistocene 

 Geology should be printed "in short abstract in accordance with 

 the opinion of the Referee." The opinions expressed by the 

 Pieferee I have copied, and now inclose. — Yours truly, 



W. S. Dallas. 



Tlie form for the guidance of the Referee is as follows : — 



1st. Is it desirable that the paper, as it stands, should be 

 published in the Quarterly Journal of the Society, as containing 

 new facts, or new views of the bearing of admitted facts, or appa- 

 rently well-founded corrections of important errors as to matters of 

 fact, published in the Journal of the Society or elsewhere ? or, 



2nd. Is it desirable that any part of the paper should be omitted, 

 as merely general observations, or as unnecessarily controvei'sial, 

 or as containing expressions liable to give just cause of offence, by 

 reason of their personality, or otherwise ? or, 



3rd. Can the Paper, for other reasons, be altered or abridged, 



