254 THE LOESS AND OTHER DEPOSITS OF SHANTUNG. [May 1895. 



Dr. Du Riche Preller agreed with Dr. Hume that the hypothesis 

 of the Authors as to the China loess having no connexion with any 

 area of glaciation was quite untenable. As in the case of the Don 

 loess in Russia, so also in that of the Swiss and Rhenish loess, there 

 was no doubt of its being in the main of glacial origin — to wit, it 

 was moraine transported and re-arranged by glacier-streams, that is 

 by fluviatile agency, and was subsequently, probably in an inter- 

 glacial period, re-deposited by seolian action. The theory of the 

 Authors as to the China loess being a marine formation was mani- 

 festly vitiated by their own somewhat hazardous conjecture that the 

 marine shells had simply disappeared. 



Mr. Clement Reid expressed his regret that there were no speci- 

 mens on the table. 



