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presents a not dissimilar coast-line, whicli may be attributable to a 

 like cause — the impinging action of an ocean current. So we may 

 conclude tliat if tlie 40 feet beach mentioned by Mr. Geikie had not 

 been upraised before the Gulf-stream impinged on that coast, it 

 would have been swept down into the depths of the ocean, as I cannot 

 find any traces mentioned of the 20 feet beach where it is not pro- 

 tected by intervening land from the action of the Gulf-stream. On 

 the rising of the land between the White Sea and the Baltic above 

 the sea-level, the return current appears to have been deflected into 

 its present channel by Nova Zembla, then west by the north coast of 

 Iceland, which is now colder than formerly (Geol. Mag., Vol. VIII. 

 p. 394), down Baffin's Bay, etc,, and it would thus force the Gulf- 

 stream to the southward to its present position. 



n^OTioiES OIF :]yn:E:vnoiias. 



I. — Peoceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Field Club. Vol. II. No. 4. (1873.) 



TWO Geological papers ai-e contained in this work : — (1). Devonian 

 Fossils from the Sandstones on the N.E. of the Quantocks, by the 

 Eev. H. H. Winwood. The author draws attention to the occurrence 

 of a series of fossils in the dense hard grey sandstones near Holford 

 and Alfoxden, which Mr. Etheridge has determined to be as follows : 



Favosites cervicornis. Fenestella plebeia. 



Fetraia celtica ? Actinocrinus. 



Atrypa desquamata ? Plant-remains ? 

 Tentaciilites. 



These organic remains determine the beds to belong to the Middle 

 Devonian Sandstones on the same horizon as Hangman, and all the 

 country from Ilfracombe to North Petherton, and coiToborate the 

 first impressions which Mr. Winwood formed from his examination 

 of the beds. Further, near Dodington Church, limestone bands, 

 containing Cyathophyllum ccespitosum, occupying a higher position than 

 the sandstones of Alfoxden and Holford, were identified by Mr. 

 Winwood as corresponding in time with the calcareous bands or 

 lenticular masses which, in the North Devon area, follow the 

 " Hangman grits " in geological succession. 



Having also' examined the beds at St. Audries, he considered that 

 they belonged rather to the Middle Devonian than to the Lower 

 Devonian according to Etheridge, or to the true Old Eed Sandstone 

 according to Jukes. In the words of Mr. Winwood, we can only 

 add that " there is much yet to be learnt of the geology of these 

 hills." 



(2). The Geographical Position of the Carboniferous Formation in 

 Somersetshire, with Notes on Possible Goal Areas in adjoining Districts 

 of the South of England. The Somersetshire Coal-field presents 

 many features of great interest, which have been treated of largely 

 by Buckland and Conybeare, G. C Greenwell, and J. McJMurtrie : 

 more recently, an exhaustive memoir on the same subject appeared 



