208 'PllOCEEDIN-GS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Apr. 3, 



by the Liassic strata in Glamorganshire, with special reference to the 

 stratigraphical position of the Sutton Stone and the Conglomerates of 

 Brocastle &c. 



Apeil 3, 1867. 



The Rev. John Edward Cross, M.A., F.R.A.S., Yicar of Appleby, 

 Lincolnshire ; Elias Dorming, Esq., Mem. Inst. C.E., 41 John Dalton 

 Street, Manchester ; R. Bruce Eoote, Esq., of the Geological Survey 

 of India, Calcutta; the Rev. Charles Eraser, M.A., Christchurch, 

 JS'ew Zealand; Lieut. Luard, R.E., "Windsor ; John Noble, Esq., 51 

 "Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, "W. ; George Spencer Perceval, 

 Esq., Severn House, Henbury, Bristol ; Thomas Richards, Esq., 

 Mining Engineer, Bank House, Redruth, Cornwall ; Charles Ricketts, 

 M.D., 22 Argyle Street, Birkenhead ; Wilfrid H. Hudleston, Esq., 

 M.A., E.Z.S., J.P., Barrister-at-law, 21 Gloucester Place, Portman 

 Square, W. ; and Josiah Henry Trimellen, Esq., Mining Engineer, 

 2 Calvert Terrace, Swansea, were elected Eellows. 



Professor Daubree, of Paris, was elected a Eoreign Member. 



Professor Bernhard von Cotta, of Freiberg, was elected a Foreign 

 Correspondent. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. Remarks on the Deift in a part of Waewickshire, and on the 

 evidence of Glacial ACTIOI^r which it affords. By the Rev. P. B. 

 Beodie, M.A., F.G.S. 



Theee are many points of great interest in the history of the Drift 

 in W^arwickshire, which it would be very desirable to have recorded, 

 and which I hoped to have undertaken, but have not yet been able 

 to accomplish ; in the meantime, a few notes upon the subject, though 

 confined to a very small area in the county, may be of service. 



The later deposits of this kind are to be found along the valley 

 of the Avon, and consist of the usual finer sands and gravels 

 with mammalian remains ; but I have not yet heard of any flint 

 implements having been detected with them, though I do not think 

 they have been so diligently searched after in the neighbourhood 

 of Warwick, Stratford, and elsewhere in the county, as they have 

 been in other places; and they may turn up at any time*. At 

 Warwick and Leamington this gravel contains many rolled fragments 

 of Liassic fossils, including the small corals (a species of Mont- 

 livaltia) immediately derived from the Hippopodium-bed at Fenny 



* Since writing the above, I find that Dugdale mentions the occurrence of a 

 flint implement in a field near Merivale, in Warwickshire ; Mr. Bloxam, of 

 E-ugby, has shown me a large flint instrument (a Celt) which was picked up also 

 in a field near Moreton in the Marsh ; and Mr. Tomes informs me that another 

 Implement was discovered in the low-level Drift near Stratford- on- Avon, but was 

 •unfortunately lost. Mr. Cleminshaw, a student at Rugby, has lately detected 

 some small flint implements in a fluviatile Drift of comparatively recent date 

 on the banks of the river Avon, at Holbrook, associated with the bones of Deer, 

 Ox, Bison, Water-Rat, Fox, &c., and remains of Anodon, a large collection of 

 which may be seen in the School ]\Iuseum at Rugby. 



