Correspondence — Rev. A. Irving — Rev. 0. Fisher. 575 



EedcIiflFe Towers, at the level where similar mollusca now exist (an 

 occurrence which may, however, be due to a recent mixing of 

 deposits), the author pointed out that as the coast is known to have 

 undergone no change of level for nearly 2000 years, it is unlikely 

 that it can have been raised forty feet, and again depressed to the 

 same extent, since the beginning of the Bronze period, not more 

 than about fifteen centuries earlier. It is more probable that the 

 clay bed was deposited in a shallow mere or marsh, of land-water 

 kept back by the sea-beach, which was then some hundreds of feet 

 further to seaward, and that the forest, which consisted chiefly of 

 willows, grew on the marsh. The mammoth tooth may have been 

 derived from an older deposit, all other remains of mammalia 

 obtained from the Forest-bed belonging to animals still existing. 



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NOTES ON THE SO-CALLED BUNTERSCHIEFEE. 



Sir, — Will yon kindly afford me space for the purpose of recording 

 a recent important discovery in connection with the lowermost strata 

 of the German Trias, the so-called Bunterschiefer ? In the July 

 Number I drew attention to some important facts relating. to the 

 Dyas and Trias of Germany, and referred to the paper which has 

 since appeared in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 

 in which a further account is to be found of some sections which I 

 made notes of on the spot during last year. I wish to draw particular 

 attention to those which illustrate the succession of the Zechstein and 

 the Bunter near Meerane, in Saxony. Since I gave an account of 

 this, as it is exhibited in the quarries between that town and the 

 village of Hainichen, the sections have been examined by Prof. 

 Geinitz in company with Herr Dittmarsch, the Director of the Saxon 

 Bergschule. In a letter to me, dated Dresden, September 3rd, 

 Prof. Geinitz says : — " It will now interest you to know that in the 

 first quarry between Hainichen and Meerane I have found, in the 

 thin-bedded sandstones of the so-called Bunterschiefer, only a few 

 metres above the Plattendolomit (Upper Zechstein), large casts of 

 footprints of Cheirosaurus Barthi, many small footprints of Saurians, 

 a few Sponges, and in particular a Rhizocorallium, which indicates 

 significantly enough that we have here to do with the lower strata of 

 the Bunter Sandstone (the so-called lower Roth), and not with the 

 strata of the Dyas." 



As Prof. Geinitz proposed to give a full account of this at the 

 recent meeting of the German Geological Society at Hanover, those 

 who are interested in the question may look to the " Proceedings " 

 of that Society for further particulars. A. Ieving. 



EVENLEY, BrACKLEY. 



THE SECTION AT HOPE'S NOSE 

 Sir, — I do not feel sure that the section, foi-merly examined by 

 Mr. Horace B, Woodward, is the same as that, of which I have 

 given a diagram ; because he speaks of a quarry, whereas my section 



