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few feet of buff-coloured sand and laminated grey clay in places 

 intervening ; at Hasborough — where the deposit itself is contorted 

 together with the rootlets — it is overlaid by Cromer Till, which 

 latter, close by, is underlaid by a little buff-coloured sand and 

 laminated grey clay ; and at Rnnton it is overlaid by twelve to 

 fifteen feet of buff-coloured sand — in which is some gravel and 

 laminated grey clay — which latter underlies the Cromer Till and 

 Contorted Drift. Thus, by the best of all geological evidence, 

 namely, superposition, it is perfectly clear that this Mammalian 

 deposit, with rootlets, did precede the Lower Glacial beds ; there- 

 fore, it is not of interglacial age as suggested, cautiously I admit, 

 by Messrs. Wood and Harmer, and consequently will not in any 

 way support their views of East Anglian interglacial valley ex- 

 cavations. 



It is well known that Messrs. Wood and Harmer have long been 

 sceptical as to the Forest-bed series at Kessingland —owing, I 

 presume, to certain complications in this cliff-section — being of 

 the same age as the Forest-bed series of the Cromer coast ; and, I 

 think I am correct in stating, that, in their numerous publications, 

 they have entirely ignored the existence of the Forest-bed series at 

 Hopton and Corton, which, in my opinion, forms a very important 

 link in the series, inasmuch as that deposit, as I have already stated, 

 is identical in every respect with the Kootlet-bed of Kessingland, to 

 the south of it, and to that of Hasborough to the north of it. Mr. 

 Gunn, on the contrary — from the evidence of the Mammalian 

 remains, associated f7rjio-beds, etc. — has long held the opinion that 

 the Kessingland Forest-bed series belonged to the same series as 

 that of the Cromer coast, the correctness of which opinion my 

 investigations fully confirm. 



As I have used the terms " Lower Glacial series " and " Forest- 

 bed series " in this communication, I wish particularly to state, I do 

 not necessarily adopt all the views of the authors of those terms 

 respecting the beds included by them in these series ; and as I hope 

 to treat of the relation of the Forest-bed series to the Chillesford 

 Clay in some future paper, I have not referred to that subject here. 



in. — On the Succession and Classification of the Beds between 

 THE Chalk and the Lower Boulder-clay in the Neighbour- 

 hood of Cromer. 



By Clement Eeid, F.G.S.; 

 Of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. 

 lY the permission of the Director-General of the Geological 

 Survey I am enabled to publish a short account of the results 

 arrived at during a detailed examination of the cliffs between Wey- 

 bourn and Mundesley on the coast of Norfolk. 



In the course of the Survey I have found it necessary to make 

 considerable alterations in the generally accepted classification and 

 succession of the Pliocene beds near Ci'omer, while my views with 

 regard to the mode of formation of the so-called " Forest Bed " 

 differ materially from those published by previous observers. To 



