THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



May 6, 1863. 



William Whitaker Collins, Esq., M.I.C.E., 15 Buckingham Street, 

 Adelphi ; Charles Carter Blake, Esq., Honorary Secretary of the 

 Anthropological Society, 1 Mabledon Place, W.C. ; and John Martin, 

 Esq., Cambridge House, Portsmouth, and Keydell, Shorndean, Hants, 

 were elected Eellows. 



M. F.-J. Pictet, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy 

 in the Academy of Geneva ; Signor Q. Sella, Member of the Italian 

 Parliament, Turin ; Herr Credner, Koniglicher Bergmeister of 

 Gotha ; Dr. J. J. Kaup, Conservator of the Museum of Darmstadt ; 

 Signor G. Meneghini, Professor of Palaeontology in the University of 

 Pisa ; Signor B. Gastaldi, of Turin ; and M. A. Morlot, of Berne, 

 were elected Foreign Correspondents. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Brick-pit at Lexden, near Colchester. By the Rev. 

 0. Fisher, M.A., F.G.S. With Notes on the Coleoptera; by 

 T. Y. Wollaston, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. 



Description of the Strata. — The Brick-pit at Lexden is situated on a 

 plateau upon the south side of the valley of the Colne, about a mile 

 west of Colchester. The table -land around Colchester, elevated some- 

 what more than a hundred feet above the level of the sea, upon the 

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