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the rocks in the south of Spain, and likely to be useful for future 

 reference. 



Recent River-detritus. 



j An a g d^ Sla !? !? d ° th ' r } Coast near Malaga. 



Raspd 1 paohes J ^ ne wn ^ e san( ^ an( ^ pebbles without I Guadalmedina, 



organic remains f banks of. 



j Marly incrustations with numerous re- 1 «. Catalina 



L cent shells J 



"Coarse gravel with sand and pebbles... \ Caleta and Jabonero 



fossiliferous J arroyos. 



Marly sands with land, freshwater, aud- 



Upper Tertiary. ^ rolled fossils 



Blue clay and marl loaded with forami- > Tejares beds, 

 nifera, univalve and bivalve shells, and 

 bones of large pachyderms. ■*' 



I T H J Nummulitic limestone, 



ower er i ry. -y q ^ c ii mes t ne and limestone-breccia. 



The Tejares (or Brick -pit) beds consist of whitish sandy marls, 

 with land and freshwater fossils overlying other sandy marls, and 

 blue marly clays loaded with foraminifera, and in many places 

 abounding with fossil shells, both univalves and bivalves, in a perfect 

 state of preservation. Fragments of a jaw and vertebra of Rhino- 

 ceros, believed by Dr. Falconer to be R. megarhynchus, were exhibited 

 at the meeting. The author has since received fragments of a large 

 cetacean, and has been informed that very perfect remains of fishes 

 have, been found. The author brought home a large collection of 

 these fossils, for which he was mainly indebted to the active coopera- 

 tion of an English lady, resident in Malaga. He was also assisted by 

 Don Antonio Linera and Don Pablo Prolongo, both of Malaga. The 

 result of the minute examination of these fossils will be communicated 

 later, but they seem to place the deposit amongst those of the Sub- 

 Apennine period, the newest being probably not far distant in time 

 from the newer tertiary deposits of Montpelier and Perenas, recently 

 described by Christol. The beds of this group are laid bare at various 

 places in the Vega or Plain of Malaga, and always present the same 

 character. They have been subjected to elevation and are tilted at 

 a small angle in various places, especially near the hills of triassic and 

 Jurassic rock in the interior. 



The Caleta deposits (so called from the arroyo or river-bed in 

 which they are seen) consist chiefly of sand- and pebble-beds, loaded 

 with fossil shells, chiefly confined to a few species of Pecten and 

 Ostrea, but including other bivalves and some univalves. These de- 

 posits are traceable up the bed of the Caleta for about a mile, and 

 are also seen in the bed of the Jabonero, and in a plain that extends 

 on its left bank. They are far less rich in species than the Tejares, 

 but there are often beds entirely consisting of Pectens or Oysters, 

 mixed only with a little loose sand. 



The Catalina beds consist of a thin coating of hardish marly lime- 

 stone, containing a few fragments of Pectens and other shells, 

 little if at all different from those living in the adjacent seas, but at 



