﻿THE 
  

  

  QUARTERLY 
  JOURNAL 
  

  

  OF 
  

  

  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY 
  OF 
  LONDON. 
  

  

  Vol. 
  XXXVIII. 
  

  

  1. 
  Description 
  and 
  Correlation 
  of 
  the 
  Bournemouth 
  Beds. 
  Part 
  

   II. 
  Lower 
  or 
  Freshwater 
  Series. 
  By 
  J. 
  Starkie 
  Gardner, 
  

   Esq., 
  E.G.S. 
  (Read 
  June 
  8, 
  1881.) 
  

  

  About 
  two 
  years 
  ago 
  I 
  had 
  the 
  honour 
  of 
  laying 
  before 
  this 
  Society 
  

   a 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  marine 
  beds 
  of 
  the 
  Middle 
  Bagshot, 
  exposed 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  Highcliff 
  and 
  Bournemouth 
  *. 
  In 
  continuation 
  of 
  my 
  former 
  

   paper, 
  I 
  now 
  propose 
  completing 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  Eocene 
  cliffs 
  

   of 
  this 
  part 
  of 
  Hampshire, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  Poole 
  Harbour. 
  

  

  These 
  are 
  of 
  freshwater 
  origin, 
  and 
  chiefly 
  interesting 
  on 
  account 
  

   of 
  the 
  fossil 
  flora 
  recently 
  obtained 
  from 
  them. 
  This 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  

   the 
  most 
  extensive 
  and 
  varied 
  yet 
  brought 
  to 
  light 
  from 
  the 
  Tertiary 
  

   formations 
  ; 
  and 
  its 
  study, 
  even 
  now, 
  promises 
  to 
  modify 
  the 
  views 
  

   held 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  very 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  similar 
  fossil 
  floras 
  described 
  

   from 
  other 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  world. 
  The 
  Palseontographical 
  Society 
  has 
  

   undertaken 
  to 
  publish 
  the 
  entire 
  British 
  Eocene 
  flora 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  first 
  

   parts, 
  comprising 
  the 
  ferns, 
  have 
  already 
  appeared. 
  To 
  illustrate 
  the 
  

   relative 
  importance 
  of 
  the 
  flora 
  of 
  Bournemouth, 
  I 
  may 
  mention 
  that 
  

   there 
  are 
  19 
  species 
  of 
  ferns 
  described 
  from 
  it, 
  and 
  that 
  only 
  10 
  have 
  

   been 
  met 
  with 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  other 
  British 
  Eocenes 
  and 
  Oligocenes, 
  inclu- 
  

   ding 
  Bovey 
  Tracey, 
  and 
  three 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  also 
  found 
  at 
  Bournemouth. 
  

   Notwithstanding 
  this, 
  few 
  plant-remains 
  are 
  obtained 
  by 
  collectors 
  ; 
  

   for 
  their 
  distribution 
  at 
  Bournemouth 
  is 
  extremely 
  local, 
  and 
  no 
  de- 
  

   tailed 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  cliffs 
  containing 
  them 
  has 
  yet 
  been 
  pub- 
  

   lished. 
  A 
  principal 
  object 
  in 
  bringing 
  the 
  present 
  paper 
  before 
  the 
  

   Society 
  is 
  therefore 
  to 
  indicate 
  the 
  exact 
  position 
  of 
  the 
  fossil-bear- 
  

  

  * 
  Quart. 
  Journ. 
  Greol. 
  Soc. 
  vol. 
  xxxv. 
  p. 
  209. 
  

   Q.J.G.S. 
  No. 
  149. 
  b 
  

  

  