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THE GEOLOGIST. 



The larger proportion have been from the lower strata, especially the 

 ganlt. 



From the chalk the ordinary fossils, as the Spatangus cordiformis, have 

 been taken ; three sharks' teeth, one that of Lamna Mantellii. From 

 the gault, as noticed by Mr, Rose, characteristic small Belemnites, with 

 Ammonites lautus, Ammonites si/mmetricus, and fragments of Inoceramus. 



The Foraminifera as yet detected by ray friend Mr. Kitton, of Norwich, 

 whose accuracy of observation as well as kindness T have to thank, are — 

 in the. gault, Orhulina (common) ; Lagena (rare) ; Nodosaria (not uncom- 

 mon) ; Frondicularia (rare) ; Dentalina (not uncommon) ; Entosolenia 

 (rare) ; Rotalina (not uncommon) ; Polymorpliina (ditto) ; Textularia 

 (common) ; Glohigerina (ditto). Fragments of Bryozoa occasionally oc- 

 cur. 



In the chalk at 500 feet depth the Foraminifera are more sparsely dis- 

 tributed, and much more injured than in the gault. They consist princi- 

 pally of two genera, Glohigerina and Textularia. Rotalina are somewhat 

 more rare. The same is the case with the samples examined from 110, 400, 

 and 1000 feet m depth. 



The work, from the unfortunate cause mentioned, is arrested apparently 

 on the point of success, to the great annoyance of the enterprising proprie- 

 tors ; and, although our business here is with the scientific facts presented, 

 the geological section will not hesitate to recognize one more instance in 

 which the science of geology has received practical homage from a private 

 commercial firm in a work of considerable boldness, carried on for three 

 years in the face of temporary defeats, with admirable courage and faith 

 in the dictates of geology. 



The other papers read in the Geological Section were : — Opening- 

 Address by Mr. J. B. Jukes ; " On a Whittled Bone from the Barnwell 

 Gravel," by Mr. Harry Seeley ; " On Tertiary Coal," by Prof. Ansted ; 

 "Alluvial Deposits on the Ehine," by R. H. C. Godwin- Austen, F.E.S. ; 

 " On an Ancient Sea-beach at Fort William," by Mr. J. Gwyn Jefireys ; 

 " Glacial Deposits of Highlands of Scotland," by Eev. S. W. King; " On 

 Wookey Hole Hyaena Den," by Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins; Last Eruption of 

 Vesuvius," by Dr. Daubeny ; " Extinct Volcano in Upper Burmah," by 

 Mr. W. T. Blandford ; " Comparative Structure of Artificial and Natural 

 Igneous Eocks," by H. C. Sorby, F.E.S. ; " General Eeview of Cambrian 

 Eocks," and " Older Metamorphic Eocks and their Fossil Contents," by 

 Dr. Bigsby ; " Contributions to Australian Mesozoic Geology," by Mr. 

 C. Moore ; " Correlation of Iron-slates and Limestones of Devon and Corn- 

 wall with Old Eed Sandstone of Scotland," by Mr. W. Pengelly ; " Six- 

 inch Maps of Bronan district, Co. Clare," by Mr. F. J. Foot; "Gold- 

 fields of Auckland" and "Gold-fields of Otago," by Dr. L. W. Lind- 

 say; "Tooth of Mastodon from Tertiary Marls, Shanghai," by Prof. 

 Owen ; "New Eecent Echinoderm and its probable Palseontological 

 Affinities," by Dr. Allman ; " Identity of Upper Old Eed Sandstone with 

 the Uppermost Devonian, and of the Middle and Lower Old Eed with the 

 Middle and Lower Devonian," by Mr. J. W. Salter ; " Skull of Rhinoceros 

 tickorkinus," by S. P. Saville ; " Supplementary Eeport on Slaty Cleavage," 

 by Prof. Phillips ; " Composition of Granite of Donegal," by Dr. T. Sterry 

 Hunt ; " Ossiferous Caves in Malta," by Dr. Falconer ; " Glacial Phe- 

 nomena of Upper Indus," by Captain Godwin- Austen ; " Fossils of Boul- 

 der Clay in Caithness," by Mr. C. W. Peach ; " Mammalian Eemains 

 from Bed of German Ocean," by Mr. C. B. Eose ; " Flint Implements 



