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date were formed, giving rise to beds in which fossils of various 

 ages are mingled in a confusing manner. 



The opinion was expressed that a careful study of the geol- 

 ogy of Antigua would probably serve to elucidate the geolog}^ of 

 the whole of the West Indies and the speaker hoped that atten- 

 tion might be drawn to this so that it might attain early fulfil- 

 ment. 



PAPER No. 23. 



NOTE ON DR. WATTS' REMARKS ON THE GEOL- 

 OGY OF ANTIGUA. 



Agr. Soc. Trin. and Tob. ; Soc. Pap. 498 cont. 



Published in Vol. 12 of the "Proceedings" for Jan. -Feb., 

 1912. Referred to as beginning on p. 75 but paged separately, 1-4. 



Page 1 



When on the reading of my paper at the Queen's College on 

 the 20th of January, Dr. Watts was kind enough, at my invita- 

 tion, to make some remarks setting forth his views on the sub- 

 ject of the geology of Antigua, I was unable to make any repl} 7 . 

 His remarks have been printed in the report of the discussion on 

 my paper in the Proceedings of the Agricultural Society. I now 

 wish to make a few observations on them having had the advan- 

 tage of being favoured with Professor Harrison's views which I 

 trust he will allow me to mention so far as they relate to the 

 geological questions. 



The points referred to by Dr. Watts are matters of fact to 

 be ascertained by investigation ; but for the reasons given in my 

 paper on Antigua I could not undertake any rectification of the 

 stratigraphical details given by Purves. For such a task I 

 should have required much more time and better health. I de- 

 voted myself therefore principally to a few points of inquiry. 



