228 DESCRIPTION AND CORRELATION OF THE BOURNEMOUTH BEDS. 
exactly in the same combinations and manner of preservation. ‘The 
synchrony of the Bovey with the Hempstead beds has been inferred 
on the most slender grounds, and scarcely deserves attention now 
that it is opposed by strong evidence pointing in another direction. 
Discussion. 
Mr. Wurraker asked if the author regarded the fruits of Sheppey 
and those of Bournemouth as coming from the same horizon, and 
called attention to the thickness of strata deposited between the 
London Clay and the Bracklesham Series. He questioned the rejec- 
tion of the older nomenclature, but admitted the great difficulty of 
correlating the Middle Eocene deposits of the London and Hampshire 
basins. 
Mr. Cuartesworta remarked on the interest attaching to the 
discovery of fossil fruits at Bournemouth, and inquired whether 
Nipadites occurred, and if the fruits were in the same state of 
mineralization as at Sheppey. 
The AvrHor replied that the Bournemouth fruits were generally 
similar to those of Sheppey, and several belonging to the latter loca- 
lity also occurred at Bournemouth. He defended his correlation of 
the beds. 
Mr. Woopwarp stated that he had not yet been able to study the 
Crustacea collected by Mr. Gardner, which were not well preserved, 
and he feared would prove incapable of specific determination. He 
had recognized among them some Spider-Crabs, apparently of the 
genus Stenorhynchus, a Xanthopsis, and what appeared to be a 
Cullianassa. 
