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never visited Kolguev, nor, as far as he was aware, ever propounded 

 any opinion as to the formation of Kolguev, nor as to an extension of 

 the Scandinavian ice-sheet over Barents Sea ; consequently TorelPs 

 views and those of the Author did not come into conflict. Dr. 

 Gregory and Dr. Hinde apparently thought that the product of an 

 ice-sheet ought to be where the marine beds of Kolguev now are, 

 and questioned the correctness of the Author's determination of the 

 Kolguev Beds. He could assure the Fellows that the Kolguev 

 Beds are as certainly sedimentary beds as the Thanet Sands, or the 

 Thalassic ooze of Barbados. In reply to the Rev. E. Hill, he ad- 

 mitted that he ought, when comparing the extent of the Boulder 

 Clay deposits of England and the glacio-marine beds of Kolguev, to 

 have made it clearer that the comparison was with areas of continuous 

 Boulder Clay without any exposure of a base-rock. 



Prof. Bonney disputed the statement that the ice-scratched stones 

 from Kolguev resembled those of moraines, and said it was an 

 assumption that the glacial beds of East Anglia were the product 

 of land-ice. It was not yet proved that shell-bearing beds were 

 or could be produced by land-ice, and we ought to explain British 

 deposits by those of Arctic regions rather than to follow the reverse 

 process. 



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