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Correspondence — M. Jespersen. 



collected by the late Hugh Strickland, Esq., and preserved in the 

 hall. This was followed by an address from Dr. Wright, "in 

 memoriam" of his working with the late eminent Hugh Strickland 

 in the Lias zones of the neighbourhood, and on the Cotteswolds. 

 A cordial vote of thanks was given to the Directors, and another vote 

 to Miss Strickland for her hospitable reception and entertainment, 

 and this brought to a close the day's proceedings, and the week's 

 programme of the visit of the London Geologists' Association to 

 Cheltenham and its neighbourhood. — Cheltenham Free Press, August 1, 

 1874. 



C0E,s,ss:P03si"nD:E]iNr0E. 



SCANIA AND BOENHOLM. 



Sir, — Doubts are entertained as to the precise age of the Coal- 

 bearing formation in Scania, mentioned in your September Number 

 of the Magazine. On Bornholm — a Danish Island in the Baltic — 

 is the same formation, and here I found several years ago Pentacrinus 

 scalaris, Miller, but only once ; neither Forchhammer nor any other 

 author has mentioned this fossil from our localities. To be sure the 

 " Bone-bed " may be here, if we have both Trias and Lias. 



Allow me to add that this Coal-bearing formation has a thickness 

 of probably 2000 feet ; the strata dip frequently at very high angles, 

 and so the faults are sometimes large; the Coal-seams or beds, about 

 twenty in nuinber, vary from a _ few inches to 8-1 feet, some of 

 which are worked. 



t The Coal-bearing formation is overlain by crystalline, eruptive 

 masses of Felsite, Granite, Breccia, Gabbro, etc., followed by Creta- 

 ceous beds of Greensand, all conformable, as described by me in 

 " Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift," 1867 and 1869. 



Volcanic action has here taken place after the age of this Coal- 

 bearing formation and before that of the Greensand. 



Coal-seam. 



Section: 3000 feet. 



A sketch from Sorthat on Bornholm. 



Dislocations succeeded the Greensand, and I should venture 

 suggest following three directions with an angle of 120°. 



Ha despudin u pakr puda. M. Jespeksen. 



PtoNNE ON B0E.NHOLM, Oct. 4, 1874. 



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