668 EADIOLAETAN EOCKS IN LOWEE CULM MEASUEES. [Nov. 1895.. 



them. The new facts Drought to light hy the Authors had an 

 important bearing upon the succession in some Devonian areas 

 which he was now examining. 



Mr. J. G. Hauling expressed his pleasure at being present on the 

 occasion of the reading of this interesting paper — especially in- 

 teresting to him, living as he did at the foot of Codden Hill. He 

 entirely agreed with the conclusions arrived at by the Authors, and 

 consequently had no criticism to offer. He might mention that he had 

 himself traced the Eadiolarian Beds from Dulverton to Fremington. 



Dr. Hices said that he had visited the quarries near Dulverton last 

 year with Mr. "Whidborne, chiefly to notice the gradual change in 

 the deposits in ascending from the Pilton Beds. They subsequently 

 visited South Pembrokeshire for the purpose of comparing the 

 sections there with those in North Devon. There they found more 

 calcareous matter, but also chert-bands, and the succession seemed 

 to show a gradual passage from the Old Red to the Lower Culm 

 Measures. They made a large collection of fossils from these rocks 

 in Pembrokeshire, and they hoped ere long to bring the results 

 before the Society. The paper by the Authors was, in Dr. Hicks's 

 opinion, a most important one in its bearing on the succession in 

 North Devon. 



Mr. J. H. Collins congratulated the Authors on their very 

 important discoveries, and bad little doubt as to the justice of their 

 conclusions, although he had no very intimate knowledge of the 

 Culm Measures, his own work having been mostly among the much 

 older rocks of the centre and west of Cornwall. 



Sir Henet Howobth also spoke ; and Dr. G. J. Hlnde replied, 

 thanking the Fellows for the reception accorded to his and Mr. Fox's 

 paper. 



