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Salter been able to recognise in his so-named Spirifera antiquissima the well-known 

 Devonian Sp. Verneuilii he would have been able to have asserted that pebbles of 

 Devonian origin were in reality found associated with the Lower-Silurian ones. In 

 another paper, published in 1864, he says that nearly thirty species of fossils have been 

 already detected in the Budleigh-Salterton pebbles, all new to British geologists, and 

 refers the pebbles and their fossils to the Lower Silurian, adding that the deposits from 

 whence they had been drifted could not be far from our shores, as they contain French 

 and not British species. Mr. Salter would, however, have been nearer to the truth, as 

 to the age of the fossils, had he abided by the conclusions arrived at in his first 

 paper. 



Since 1797 a great deal has been published on the Budleigh-Salterton question, both 

 at home and abroad ; and to save repetitions I append, in a foot-note, a list of all the 

 papers that are known to me as treating directly or indirectly of the subject. 1 These 



1 1797. Polwkele's Devon, vol. i, p. 61. 



1863. Vicary Sf Salter. On the Pebble-bed and Fossils of Budleigh Salterton — Quart. Journ. Geol. 



Soc., vol. xx, p. 283, pis. xv, xvi, xvii. 



1864. Salter. On some points in Ancient Physical Geology, illustrated by Fossils from a Pebble-bed 



at Budleigh Salterton, Devonshire — Geol. Mag., vol. i, p. 5, July, 1864. 



1864. Pengelly. The Denudation of Pocks in Devonshire — Trans, of the Devonshire Association for 



the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, vol. i, part hi, pp. 45-49, July, 1864. 



1865. P. B. Brodie. On the Drift of Warwickshire — Brit. Assoc. Reports for 1865 ; Geol. Mag., 



vol. ii, p. 566, 1865 ; and Trans. Devon. Assoc, vol. ix, p. 223. 



1865. Pengelly. The Red Sandstone Conglomerates and Marls of Devonshire — Annual Report and 



Trans, of the Plymouth Institution ; Devon and Cornwall Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1866. Davidson. British Silurian Brachiopoda — Pal. Soc. 



1867. Etheridge. On the Physical Structure of West Somerset and North Devon — Quart. Journ. 



Geol. Soc, vol. xxxiii. 



1869. Davidson. Notes on the Brachiopoda hitherto obtained from the Pebble-bed of Budleigh- 

 Salterton — Exeter Meeting of Brit. Assoc, 1869; and Quarterly Journal Geol. Soc, 

 vol. xxvi, p. 70, &c, 1869. 



1869. Etheridge. On Budleigh-Salterton Pebble-bed— Discussion on the reading of Mr. Davidson's 

 paper, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxvi, p. 89. 



1869. E. Hull. The Triassic and Permian Rocks of the Midland Counties of England — Memoirs of 



the Geol. Survey of England. 



1870. T. Tawney. Fossils of the Budleigh-Salterton Pebbles— Geol. Mag., vol. vii, p. 141 ; and On 



the Occurrence of Fossils at Smuggler's Cave, Torquay — Trans, of the Devon. Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, 18/0. 



1870-1872. W. Whitaker. List of Works on the Geology, Mineralogy, and Palaeontology of Devon- 

 shire — Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. 



1872. W. Linford. On the Budleigh-Salterton Pebbles— Trans. Geol. Soc. of Edinburgh, vol. ii, 

 part i, 1872. 



1872. C. W. Peach. Notes on the Pebbles of Budleigh-Salterton— Trans. Geol. Soc. of Edinburgh, 

 vol. ii. 



1874. TV. Linford. Notes on the Quarries at Caen and May, in Normandy — Rep. and Proc. of the 



