XVI. On some Beds of Shell-Marie in Scotland. 

 By HENRY WARBURTON, Esq. f.r.s. 



VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



[Read January 21st, 1814.] 



JlHE late researches of Messrs. Cuvier and Brongniart in the 

 vicinity of Paris, and those of Mr. Webster in the Isle of Wight, 

 have made known to us a new series of beds, of which the most 

 remarkable consist almost entirely of the shells of freshwater mol- 

 luscae. An instance of analogous recent accumulations will not, I 

 hope, be undeserving of the Society's attention. 



The Rev. James Lambert, of Trinity College, Cambridge, has 

 supplied me with most of the following particulars, which have 

 been chiefly abstracted from the returns made to that gentleman's 

 enquiries by some respectable land agents and proprietors in the 

 neighbourhood of Dundee. 



The beds of shell-marle are chiefly found in the shire of Angus, 

 in the several parishes of Kerrymuir, Airlie, Forfar, Rescobie, 

 Meigh, Newtigh, Abermo', and Lundie, lying from eight to twenty 

 miles north-west or north-east of Dundee. They are also known 

 in the shires of Perth and Ross, and south of the Tay in the shire 

 of Fife near to St. Andrew's, and of Berwick near to Kelso. 



The shells, which, by the kindness of Mr. Lambert, I am enabled 

 to present to the Society, were taken from a bed of marie lying on 



