QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 30, 1853. 



Dr. John Lister, the Rev. W. L. Symoncls, A.M., David Page, 

 Esq., and A. Robinson, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Occurrence q/" Fossil Insects in the Wealden Strata 

 of the Sussex Coast. By Messrs. William R. and Henry 

 Binfield. 



[Communicated by Prof. J. Morris, F.G.S.] 



The specimens which we have the honour to present to the Geolo- 

 gical Society are, we believe, the first remains of Insects from the 

 Wealden of Hastings which have been brought before the notice of 

 the Society* ; the details we have been able to collect respecting the 

 position and character of the beds containing them may, therefore, 



* The discovery of Insect-remains in the Hastings Sands series of the Isle of 

 Wight, by Prof. E. Forbes, is briefly referred to in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. No. 34. 

 p. 52, note ; and the occurrence of a few fragments of Coleopterous elytra in the 

 Wealden marlstone, from between Tunbridge and Maidstone, was noticed by the 

 late Dr. Mantell, ibid. vol. ii. p. 96 ; and again, vol. v. p. 39. 



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