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ditions ; but still at the base there is a Scandinavian fauna associated 

 with glaciated stones. In reply to Dr. Jeffreys, he stated that the 

 Newton section is situated at about 140 feet above the sea, and at a 

 distance from it of 20 miles. To Mr. Belt he replied that, as Dr. 

 Jeffreys had said, what the late Edward Eorbes would have called 

 " deep-sea forms " would not be so regarded now ; all the Mollusca 

 and also the Microzoa from these Drift deposits are either littoral or 

 sublittoral species. The shells containing Microzoa also contain 

 very fine silt, which will come out of them even as they fall 

 through the water in a tumbler into which they have been dropped, 

 so that they could not have borne transportation in their present 

 condition. During their descent from the ground-ice, their contents 

 were probably hard frozen within the shells, which would preserve 

 for a time the silt within them from thawing. 



