78 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [DeC. 4, 



dantly a Coral like Paraeyathus caryophyllus ^^^^' ' ^"* 



(see Palreont. Soc. Monogi'. vol. for 1850, pt. 1) 



and crushed Dentalia, with a few Bivalves, 



species undistinguishable. (The equivalent 



bed is found at Hunting Bridge, in the New 



Forest.) It ends not far east of some rails on 



theclifP 8 6 



] 9 Greenish-blue sandy clay ; no fossils seen 339 22 4 



18 The same, rather more laminated 114 7 6 



17 The same, with Pleistocene weathering and roots 



of trees, opposite the mouth of a valley 43 2 9 



16 (i) Nummulina variolaria bed ; with Pecten corncus 

 at the top, and Cardifa planicosta at the bottom. 

 (This bed was proved to be 4f feet thick by 

 digging through it) 74 4 6 



15 Liver-coloured stiff clay 49 3 3 



A. \ 14 Dark-greenish-blue clay, crowded with Corhula 



pisum 62 4 



13 (^) Very dark clayey sand, with many fossils and a 



layer of large Cardites 'planicostce at the bottom 97 6 4 



12 Clay greyer and less sandy, fewer fossils, but 



(7or^M/a common 15 Oil 



1 1 Clay darker and more sandy ; flat septaria, usually 

 formed on drift-wood bored by Teredines. 

 There is sometimes coarse drift-sand on the 

 eastern side of the logs. Pinna onargaritacea 

 abundant 100 6 7 



1 Strata not seen ; presumed, from what appears 



in the cliff, to be soft sand, with small shells... 152 10 



9 Dark sand ; very few shells 105 6 11 



8 Bed of great septaria in dark sand, which weathers 



of a greenish yellow in the cliff 57 3 8 



7 Dark sandy clay 39 2 6 



6 (e?) Dark sandy clay, with broken fossils. (This is 

 seen as the most westerly fossiliferous bed in 

 the cliff.) JDentalium and Cytherea lucida 



common 66 4 3 



5 • Dark-green sand : Cardium ? Edwardsi, var., very 



common 24 16 



4 The same : Pecten corneus very common 48 3 1 



3 Darker and coarser sand 26 1 8 



Total 106 9 



From this point the section is nearly obscured for about half a 

 mile ; but sufficient is exposed to show that it consists almost 

 wholly of sands belonging to Group B. 



Then, in the old cliff, at Hill Head, at the point where the word 

 " fossils " is engraved in the map of the Geological Survey, there is a 

 bed of large septaria in sand, resting upon laminated clay. Here I 

 found, in 1856, a lenticular mass of fossil shells with Cerithium gigan- 

 teum, washed together, partly concreted into septaria, and partly free. 

 The position in the section, as well as the assemblage of shells, 

 prove it to be on the horizon of ix.* Beyond this point the beds 

 consist of sands, weathered yellowish and bluish green, and rather 

 micaceous. Further east, near Meon, are greenish sands, with 



* An extension of this bed, with similar fossils, seems to occur beneath low- 

 water mark, at the furthest extremity of the spit of shingle opposite Stubbington 

 Lane-end, where specimens may be found washed in by the sea. 



