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evidence of local erosion is indicated at- various horizons in the 

 Inferior Oolite by the occurrence of pebbles of oolite, etc., he thought 

 that the local absence of fossii-beds like the Iric/onia-grit or 

 PJioIadomya-gvit was no more to be regarded as evidence of erosion, 

 than the absence of the sands and tilestone and clay which locally 

 formed part of the Inferior Oolite. The flexures suggested by the 

 Author would, if drawn to scale, prove to be of very trifling 

 dimensions. 



Mr. HijDLESTON commented on the difficulty of basing an adequate 

 discussion on the very short abstract of a long paper presented to 

 the meeting at that late hour. He considered that in a previous 

 paper the Author had established a fair case for what he should 

 continue to call ' contemporaneous erosion ' in the Inferior Oolite 

 of Birdlip. There it was evident that beds had been removed 

 previous to the deposition of higher beds of the same series. 



From his intimate knowledge of the minor subdivisions of the 

 Inferior Oolite, the Author possessed unusual facilities for detecting 

 anything that was missing ; and it would seem that in the present 

 communication he had gone a step further, so as to indicate the 

 undulations of the movement which had brought certain beds 

 within the influence of denuding agencies. Such movements were 

 undoubtedly on a very small scale, compared with those in the 

 Shropshire Coal-Measnres, to which reference had been made. 

 He (the speaker) thought it possible that the great denuded anti- 

 cline of the Vale of Moreton might be of later date than the 

 Bajocian disturbances, but as the case was being tried without 

 evidence he considered it safer to reserve his judgment. 



Mr. E. A. Walfoed said that he dou))ted the evidence of the 

 anticline along the Vale of Moreton. The tilt of the strata, he 

 thought, was caused by the downslide of rock to the Vale in the 

 usual manner. 



Prof. SoLLAS and Prof. Watts also spoke. 



