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Serpida filaria, and S. plicatilis ; but a very large nuinber of the 

 African shells have their representatives in the Lower and Middle 

 Oolites of Europe, and their equivalents in India. 



2. "Further remarks upon the relation of the Chillesford Beds to 

 the Fluvio-marine Crag." By the Eev. 0. Fisher, M.A., F.G-.S. 



The author dissented from the interpretation of two pit-sections, 

 one on Aldringham Common, the other near Henham Park Farm, 

 given by Mr. Searles Wood, in his paper " On the structure of the 

 Eed Crag." Mr. Fisher admitted that the former is at a higher 

 level than the Thorpe Crag-pit, and the latter than the Wangford 

 Crag ; but he denied that the loam on Aldringham Common is 

 Chillesford clay, and was doubtful whether even that at Henham 

 Park Farm belongs to that deposit. Granting, however, that the 

 loam in the latter case is really Chillesford clay, the author stated 

 that it is probably carried under the Wangford Crag by a northern 

 dip. Thus he considered that neither of these sections contains 

 indisputable evidence of the superposition of the Chillesford clay to 

 the Fluvio-marine Crag. He also expressed a doubt of the crag at 

 Bulchamp being a continuation of the Wangford bed, and stated 

 that it much more resembles the Mya-bed as seen at Yarn Hill. If 

 this interpretation be correct, Chillesford clay might occur at 

 Henham Park Farm, intermediate between the Crag of Wangford 

 and the Mya-bed at Bulchamp. 



Geological Society of London. — HI. Annual General Meeting, 

 February 15, 1867.— Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.E.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the Eeports of the Council, of the Library 

 and Museum Committee, and of the Auditors. The continued 

 prosperity of the Society, and the sustained annual increase in its 

 numbers, were stated to be especially satisfactory. 



The President announced the Award of the Wollaston Gold Medal 

 to G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., M.P., F.E.S., F.G.S., etc., in recognition 

 of the highly important services he has rendered to geology by his 

 examination and published descriptions of the volcanic phenomena 

 of Central France, and by his works on the subject of volcanic 

 action generally throughout the world ; and in handing the Medal to 

 its distinguished recipient, he bore personal testimony to the accuracy 

 of his descriptions and the soundness of his conclusions ; and ob- 

 served that, however much theoretical Adews may change with the 

 advance of our science, he felt assured that Mr. Scrope's name would 

 remain linked with the study of this important class of the agencies 

 which modify the surface of the earth. Mr. Poulett Scrope, on 

 receiving the Medal, expressed his gratitude to the President and 

 Council for this recognition of his early labours. The President 

 then stated that the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Dona- 

 tion-fund had been awarded to W. H. Baily, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., to 

 assist him in the preparation and publication of an illustrated 

 Catalogue of British Fossils ; and, in Mr. Baily's absence, placed it, 

 together with a diploma to that effect, in the hands of Sir E. I. 



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