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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  rounded 
  pebbles 
  of 
  quartz 
  and 
  agate 
  are 
  also 
  sometimes 
  found 
  im- 
  

   bedded 
  in 
  them 
  ; 
  occasionally 
  also 
  small 
  nodules 
  of 
  iron-pyrites. 
  

  

  Here 
  and 
  there 
  amongst 
  these 
  sandstone-pebbles 
  are 
  found 
  some 
  

   of 
  pure 
  quartz, 
  of 
  lydian- 
  stone, 
  and 
  others 
  of 
  a 
  schorlaceous 
  cha- 
  

   racter. 
  

  

  The 
  New 
  Red 
  Sandstone 
  of 
  this 
  district 
  is 
  proverbially 
  barren 
  of 
  

   organic 
  remains 
  of 
  its 
  own 
  time, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  never 
  seen 
  any 
  trace 
  of 
  

   such 
  a 
  fossil, 
  save 
  now 
  and 
  then 
  a 
  worm-track 
  or 
  a 
  ripple-mark. 
  

   But 
  of 
  the 
  fossils 
  of 
  the 
  older 
  rocks, 
  furnished 
  by 
  the 
  fragments 
  of 
  

   those 
  rocks 
  imbedded 
  in 
  the 
  conglomerates, 
  they 
  are 
  very 
  rich. 
  

   The 
  red 
  rocks 
  at 
  Dawlish 
  and 
  Teignmouth 
  afford 
  us 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  

   best 
  specimens 
  we 
  have 
  of 
  the 
  Corals 
  and 
  Sponges 
  of 
  the 
  Devonian 
  

   age. 
  At 
  North 
  Tawton, 
  twenty 
  miles 
  at 
  least 
  from 
  any 
  spot 
  where 
  

   these 
  rocks 
  are 
  seen 
  in 
  situ, 
  similar 
  fossils 
  are 
  also 
  found. 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  conglomerates 
  at 
  the 
  Ness, 
  near 
  Shaldon, 
  I 
  have 
  ob- 
  

   tained 
  several 
  fossils 
  of 
  a 
  Nautiloid 
  form, 
  which 
  Mr. 
  Salter 
  thinks 
  

   must 
  certainly 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  the 
  Petherwin 
  beds 
  as 
  Cly- 
  

   menia 
  linearis 
  is 
  common 
  among 
  them. 
  Regarding 
  the 
  fossils 
  now 
  

   submitted 
  for 
  your 
  inspection, 
  Mr. 
  Salter 
  has 
  kindly 
  furnished 
  me 
  

   with 
  a 
  report, 
  which 
  I 
  now 
  subjoin. 
  

  

  Note 
  on 
  the 
  Fossils 
  from 
  the 
  Btjdleigh 
  Salterton 
  Pebble-bed. 
  

   By 
  J. 
  W. 
  Salter, 
  F.G.S., 
  A.L.S. 
  

  

  When 
  I 
  first 
  examined 
  the 
  pebbles 
  from 
  the 
  Budleigh 
  Salterton 
  beds 
  

   in 
  the 
  choice 
  cabinet 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Vicary, 
  of 
  Exeter, 
  the 
  impression 
  made 
  

   upon 
  me 
  was 
  that 
  anything 
  and 
  everything 
  might 
  be 
  expected 
  on 
  

   British 
  soil. 
  Familiar 
  as 
  we 
  had 
  long 
  been 
  with 
  the 
  great 
  variety 
  

   of 
  forms 
  displayed 
  by 
  our 
  own 
  Silurian 
  series, 
  there 
  had, 
  neverthe- 
  

   less, 
  been 
  so 
  far 
  among 
  them 
  a 
  great 
  uniformity 
  of 
  type, 
  and 
  that 
  a 
  

   type 
  shared 
  by 
  the 
  fossils 
  of 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  northern 
  or 
  Scandi- 
  

   navian 
  area, 
  as 
  Sir 
  R. 
  I. 
  Murchison 
  and 
  others 
  have 
  long 
  ago 
  indi- 
  

   cated. 
  We 
  knew 
  that 
  the 
  principal 
  forms 
  found 
  in 
  Russia 
  and 
  

   Sweden 
  were 
  represented 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  perfectly 
  in 
  the 
  sandstones 
  

   and 
  shales 
  of 
  the 
  Border-counties, 
  and 
  the 
  slates 
  of 
  our 
  Welsh 
  and 
  

   Cumbrian 
  series. 
  Nor 
  would 
  it 
  have 
  surprised 
  any 
  student 
  of 
  the 
  

   palaeozoic 
  rocks 
  to 
  find 
  a 
  large 
  development 
  of 
  North 
  American 
  

   forms 
  in 
  our 
  western 
  limits, 
  as, 
  for 
  instance, 
  the 
  Canadian 
  fossils 
  

   found 
  by 
  Sir 
  R. 
  I. 
  Murchison 
  in 
  the 
  West 
  Highlands, 
  or 
  the 
  New 
  

   England 
  types 
  discovered 
  and 
  described 
  by 
  General 
  Portlock 
  in 
  the 
  

   county 
  of 
  Tyrone. 
  

  

  But 
  the 
  central 
  European 
  type 
  — 
  that 
  exhibited 
  in 
  France 
  and 
  

   Spain, 
  and 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  shown 
  by 
  Barrande 
  and 
  De 
  Yerneuil 
  to 
  

   be 
  identical 
  with 
  the 
  groupings 
  of 
  the 
  Bohemian 
  basin 
  — 
  had 
  not 
  yet 
  

   given 
  to 
  Britain 
  a^ 
  single 
  fossil. 
  No 
  sooner 
  do 
  we 
  cross 
  the 
  Channel 
  

   than 
  we 
  are 
  introduced 
  to 
  an 
  entirely 
  new 
  set 
  of 
  Lower 
  Silurian 
  

   fossils, 
  and 
  it 
  would 
  puzzle 
  any 
  geologist 
  to 
  identify 
  accurately 
  the 
  

   subdivisions 
  of 
  the 
  Llandeilo 
  and 
  Caradoc 
  rocks 
  in 
  Wales 
  and 
  

   Normandy, 
  while 
  he 
  would 
  find 
  no 
  such 
  difficulty 
  in 
  drawing 
  his 
  

  

  