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III. MISCELLANEA. 



I. Annual Meeting of the French Geological Society 

 /or 1846. 



It has been decided that the Annual General Meeting of the French 

 Geological Society for the year 1846 shall be held at Avallon, an 

 interesting locality situated on the limits of the chalk and the old 

 rocks. 



Avallon is a clean and well-built town situated on the right bank 

 of the little river Cousin, a tributary of the Yonne, and is distant 

 about 150 miles from Paris, on the high road to Chalons-sur-Saone. 

 It is built on a sort of granite promontory, and is surrounded by 

 extremely picturesque scenery, chiefly produced by the contrast of 

 rich and luxuriant cultivation with the almost savage beauties of the 

 gorge along which the Cousin runs. These natural objects of in- 

 terest arising entirely from the peculiar geological constitution of 

 the district, it cannot be doubted that the meeting will be one of 

 considerable interest. The meeting is fixed for the 14th of Sep- 

 tember, and the President of the Society has already directed the 

 attention of the members to the fact that there are some questions 

 regarding moraines or supposed moraines which it will be desirable 

 to clear up. 



II. Foot-prints in the Connecticut Sandstone. 



The remarkable locality on the banks of the Connecticut river 

 (U.S.), which has furnished more numerous and more singular ex- 

 amples of the footsteps of various animals than any other spot on 

 record, has lately yielded to Dr. Deane's investigations some mark- 

 ings wdiich he considers must have been made by a progressive 

 movement of the nature of leaping, the creature which formed them 

 either leaping like a frog, or, more probably, like a kangaroo, with- 

 out the fore-feet touching the ground. In these prints, each foot 

 has five toes, the central one marked with four articulations, and 

 each adjacent one on both sides of it diminishing by one in suc- 

 cession. The diameter of the foot is 2J inches, and the impressions, 

 which are remarkably perfect, are associated with several species of 

 bird-tracks, and with rain-drops in wonderful preservation. — Silli- 

 marCs Journal^ vol. xlix. p. 80. 



