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near Leicester, and to indicate the absence of the ' "White Lias ' at 

 this point. The dip of all the above beds is the same, viz. 2° to 3° a 

 little north of N.E. (the direction of the line) ; and there is no 

 evidence of unconformity. The succession is apparently the same 

 at Barnston as on the Nottingham and Grantham line at Elton, 

 3-iJj- miles north-east, between which places and beyond to Orston 

 the Avicirfa-contovta shales form a low but very clearly defined es- 

 carpment along their outcrop.' 5 



2. " Note on the Red Crag." By W. Whitaker, Esq., B.A., 

 E.G.S. 



The object of this paper is to show that what had been taken to 

 be an irregular line of erosion between a certain unfossiliferous sand 

 and the shelly Bed Crag (in Suffolk) was really a line of dissolution 

 of shells, the sand being simply Bed Crag deprived of its fossils 

 through percolation of water. This is shown to be the case from 

 the facts that in some places lines of bedding and false-bedding ex- 

 tend from the Crag into the sand, and that impressions of Crag shells 

 are found in ironstone in the sand. 



3. " On the Kessingland Cliff section, and the relation of the 

 Forest-bed to the Chillesford Clay, with some remarks on the so- 

 called terrestrial surface at the base of the Norwich Crag." By E. 

 W. Harmer, Esq., E.G.S. 



This paper was a reply to one read before the Society during last 

 session by Mr. J. Gunn, E.G.S., who affirmed that the Eorest-beds 

 in the section were overlain by the Norwich Crag and Chillesford 

 Clay. The author, on the contrary, gave, in the first part of the 

 paper, detailed drawings of the cliff, in which he represented the 

 fossiliferous deposits known as the Kessingland Beds as resting in a 

 gorge cut out of, and consequently newer than, the Chillesford Clay. 

 The beds present in the section, according to his view, are (in 

 ascending order) :— 



1. The Chillesford Clay. 



&x) ^ f2. An unstratified blue clay, penetrated by rootlets, shown 

 •| IS | occasionally to be underlain by sand and gravel, which, with 



o ^ -^ the clay, contains mammalian remains and freshwater shells. 

 ^ la I 3. A lenticular-shaped bed of laminated clay and sand, 

 cfj £ [ with wood debris at its base. 



4. The Middle Glacial sand and gravel. 



5. The Upper Glacial or chalky Boulder-clay. 



In the 2nd part of the paper the author urged that the stone bed 

 at the base of the Norwich Crag, which contains marine shells and 

 mammalian remains, was not an old land surface, as asserted by 

 Mr. Gunn and others, but merely the basement-bed of the deposit 

 which overlies it, the mammalian fossils it contains, which are prin- 

 cipally worn and fragmentary portions of teeth, being derivative 

 from some older Tertiary deposit, just as are the flints with which 

 they are associated from the Chalk. 



4. " Observations on the Geology of East Anglia, &c." By S. V. 

 Wood, jun., Esq., E.G.S., and E. W. Harmer, Esq., E.G.S., &c. 



The subjects discussed in this paper were threefold, viz. : — 



