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2. "On the Mammalia and Traces of Man found in the Robin- 

 Hood Cave." By W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 F.S.A., Professor of Geology and Palaeontology in the Owens Col- 

 lege, Manchester. 



3. " Notes on the Gravels, Sands, and other Superficial Deposits 

 in the neighbourhood of Newton-Abbot." By Horace B. Woodward, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



Tho writer pointed out that most of the deposits termed Upper 

 Greensand in the immediate neighbourhood of Newton- Abbot were 

 in reality intercalated with coarse gravel-beds containing, among 

 others, fragments of greensand, chert, and chalk flint. He con- 

 sidered that the only traces of Greensand in situ were probably on 

 tho summit of Milber Down and east of Combe Farm, deposits 

 which were identified by Mr. God win- Austen. But he could not 

 agree in the identification of Greensand at other localities in the 

 Bovey valley, considering the few fossils found to have been derived, 

 and, with much other material, to have been evidently due to the 

 denudation of Chalk and Greensand. He pointed out the geogra- 

 phical distribution of these beds of sand and gravel, which extend 

 from the hill-tops bordering the Bovey valley to near the bottom of 

 the valley, but do not descend into any outlying valleys. He like- 

 wise alluded to the peculiar dip into the valley which affects these 

 beds in several places, and observed that sometimes they rested on 

 the Bovey Clays and Lignites. He thought that in their method of 

 formation some connexion might be traced with somewhat similar 

 deposits on the Haldon and Black-Down Hills. 



He pointed out that the " Head" at the bottom of the valley was 

 sometimes not to be distinguished from the older gravels, from 

 which, however, it was largely derived. He alluded to the discovery 

 of bones, a bronze spear-head, and a wooden doll or idol in this 

 deposit — observing that they indicated the rapid accumulation of 

 gravel, and that this indication was one out of many that .'might be 

 given that our modern river-gravels are to a great extent made up 

 of older gravels. 



In conclusion the writer alluded to some of the deposits now 

 forming on the margin of the Teign estuary, and which are identical 

 in character witli the Triassic breccia. 



4. " On certain Alluvial Deposits associated with the Plymouth 

 Limestone." By R. N. Worth, Esq., F.G.S. 



The author adduced certain deposits found in fissures and caverns 

 of the I'lymouth Limestone as furnishing evidence in opposition to 

 the views advocated by Mr. Belt in his paper on the Drifts of Devon 

 and Cornwall*. The best examples occur at Plymouth Hoe, where 

 the chief deposit fills a large "pocket" in the limestone, and con- 

 sists (beneath the turf) of a bed of clayey soil, containing pebbles 

 and small boulders, beneath which are patches of white and red clay 

 containing a few pebbles and overlying a large quantity of siliceous 

 sand. Similar but slightly varying deposits not unfrequently occur 

 in association with the Limestone ; and these are regarded by the 



* See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc vol, xxxii. p. 80. 



