THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



December 13, 1854, 



James Colquhoun, Esq., George Burnand, Esq., and R. B. Grind- 

 rod, Esq., M.D., were elected Fellows. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. On a FossiLiFEROus Drift near Salisbury*. By Joseph 

 Prestwich, Jun., Esq., F.K.S., F.G.S., and John Brown, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



The great extent of bare and clean-denuded chalk hills forms a very 

 striking feature of the scenery around Salisbury. But, although 

 the more prominent parts of the country are so free from drift, the 

 small valleys which traverse these great undulating downs contain, 

 scattered along their base and often extending for a short distance 

 up the slopes of the adjacent hillsf , a considerable quantity of gravel, 



* An unforeseen circumstance has caused me to bring this paper forward earlier 

 than I intended. It was rather my intention to have embodied it in a more 

 general inquiry on the Drift. Not having as yet made all the prehminary inquiries, 

 I was not, when I wrote it, aware of a paper on the same subject communicated to 

 the Society by Sir Charles Lyell in June 1827, and of which an abstract was pub- 

 lished in tlie first volume of the ' Proceedings,' p. 25. Sir Charles enumerates the 

 same fossil animals, with the exception of the Deer, and states also that Land- 

 shells are said to occur in this deposit. No lists, however, are given of the organic 

 remains, and the present paper may serve, therefore, to complete this former notice 

 of a very interesting locality. — [J. P., Jun., Feb. 1855.] 



t There is, however, some drift of a different age at a higher level. 

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