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water Level Marks on the Coast of Sweden," by the Earl of Selkirk, 

 throws great doubt on the received creed as to the rise of land in 

 Scandinavia ; and although we cannot admit that his lordship has 

 entirely disproved the belief that the land is gradually rising, he 

 has no doubt done good service by showing flaws in the evidence 

 sufficient to call into action more caution and discrimination on the 

 part of future investigators, than has been exercised by many of 

 those who have hitherto studied the subject. 



In a paper " On the Lower Lias or Lias-conglomerate of a part 

 of Glamorganshire," Mr. H. W. Bristow combats Mr. Tawney's 

 conclusions as to the Sutton and Southerndown series, and shows 

 that instead of the latter overlying the former, the two series pass 

 horizontally into one another. Mr. Bristow's experience as a 

 surveyor and Mr. Tawney's deficiency in this respect render it 

 extremely probable that the interpretation of the sections now 

 given is the correct one, and that the Sutton series is not quite so 

 ancient as Mr. Tawney believed it to be. 



Mr. J. W. Judd has a most creditable paper " On the Strata 

 which form the Base of the Lincolnshire Wolds," in which he 

 describes at length the various red beds occurring in the Lower 

 Chalk as distinguished from the Bed Chalk of Hunstanton (the 

 Hunstanton Limestone of Mr. Seeley), which is probably of the age 

 of the Upper Greensand or Gault, possibly even representating both 

 of these formations, as has been suggested by Mr. Seeley. Mr. 

 Judd distinguishes by the name of the " Tealby Series " a still lower 

 set of strata, the analogies of whose fauna are to be found in the 

 Neocomian fossils of • North-western Germany and South-eastern 

 France, rather than in those of the Lower Greensand of the South 

 of England. The geology of the Lincolnshire Wolds has been so 

 much neglected that Mr. Judd has done the work of a pioneer, 

 and, considering the slight information we formerly possessed on 

 the subject, this paper gives a remarkably solid basis for future 

 progress in correlating still more closely the strata of this district 

 with those of other regions ; and more especially in defining the 

 relations of the Neocomian strata of the Continent with the English 

 Lower Greensand. 



Two papers on Eozoon, by Sir W. Logan and Dr. Dawson, 

 contain a complete description of some specimens of that fossil, 

 which consist entirely of carbonate of lime, as well as of the strata 

 in which they were found. The discovery of the specimens of 

 Eozoon in this condition is the best possible answer to some at least 

 of the arguments used by Prof. King and Dr. Bowney against the 

 organic nature of the fossil ; and in addition Dr. Dawson states 

 that the objections raised by them had been considered by him 

 previously to publishing his first paper on the subject. 



We have thus selected out of the Society's Journal some of the 



