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been moved in bulk, traces of this should be found all round the 

 coast, and there ought to be historic records of the event, though the 

 reverse was actually the case. The facts that the Temple had been 

 depressed some 20 feet, had stood in this position some time, and had 

 again been raised, were established, and these were against the theory- 

 brought forward. 



Prof. JuDD felt certain that, had the Author visited the district, 

 he would have found so many facts opposed to his theory that he 

 would never have advanced it. Monte Epomeo gave evidence of 

 elevation to an extent of nearly 1800 feet in the most recent geo- 

 logical times. 



The Peesident had recently spent some time on the borders of the 

 Mediterranean, and was often struck with the proof of great stability 

 of level, as shown by the position of Eoman towns with a strip of 

 alluvial flat between them and the sea, but yielding no evidence of 

 submergence within the historic period. Had such a general rise 

 of the water-level taken place as the Author demanded, there would 

 surely have been abundant local evidence, as well as historic proof, 

 of it along the low coasts of the Mediterranean. 



The AuTHOE had visited the neighbourhood, and he believed 

 unquestionable evidence of changes of level would be found all round 

 those coasts, as they were all the world over. His argument as to 

 the mean surface-level of the Mediterranean being dependent upon 

 that of the part of the Atlantic which lies to the westward of the 

 Gibraltar Straits, and as to probable alteration in the state of the 

 Atlantic from astronomical causes, had not been met nor even 

 referred to in the remarks which had been made upon his paper. 



2. "North-ItaHan Bryozoa." By A. W. Waters, Esq., E.G.S. 



[Abstract.] 



The Chilostomatous Bryozoa dealt with in the paper are, for the 

 most part, from known Yicentine localities, together with some from 

 two new localities on the Monte Baldo, in the Veronese and Tyrol. 

 Reuss described a number from the Yicentine, but at a time when 

 the chief attention was given to the shape of the zoarium, and the 

 oral aperture, avicularia, and ovicells did not receive the attention 

 now given to them. The attempt is therefore made to bring our 

 knowledge of these beds, which are the richest and most important 

 known in the Lower Tertiaries, more nearly up to present ideas, so 

 that more exact comparisons may be made between Tertiary and 

 living forms. 



Several cases are mentioned in which there is great difference of 

 zoarial shape, and also some in which there is great range in the 

 zooecial characters. 



The discovery of CateniceUa in these beds is of considerable im- 

 portance, which is enhanced by one of the species having both short 

 beads and longer internodes. 



