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THE GEOLOGIST. 
formalion. From Turin some shelly sands, of pliocene age, were defined as 
containing a grouj) of Forambiifera similar io those now living on the western 
sliores of Italy ; and the I'iilermo deposits are, for the most part, not very dis- 
similar. The Iletcrostegina-bed at Malta, formed probably in rather shallow 
water, is characterized l)y a species now absent from the Mediterranean. The 
tertiary de])asit from Ealjik appears to have been a shallow water deposit, 
characterized by some forms peculiiir at the present day to the Red Sea ; a 
condition that is also indicated by some of the Viennese deposits. 
LivEBPOOL Geologicax Society.— The first meeting of this society was 
held on Tuesday, the 10th of January last. 
Prof. Phillips, President of the Geological Society of London ; Prof. Ham- 
say, Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain ; Prof. Jukes, 
Du-eetor of the Geological Survey of Ireland ; Prof. Morris, P.G.S. ; and 
S. J. Mackie, Esq., P.G.S., P.S.A., were elected honorary members. 
The President, Henry Duckworth, Esq., E.R.G.S., P.G.S., then read the 
inaugui-atiou adcb'ess. After eongratulatmg the members on their assembling 
together for the first time as a constituted body, he proceeded to point out the 
objects of the society. 
The geology of Liverpool and its immediate neighbourhood was next 
touched upon, and afterwards that of the surrounding country, especially of 
North Wales, the President calling ])articular attention to the comparative 
ease with which such deeply interesting loeabties as Church Stretton, Coal- 
brookdale, and Ludlow — the portals of the Sdurian system — might be reached. 
The President then gave a resume of the progress of geological science during 
the past year. 
A paper was then read by the Secretary, G. H. Morton, Esq., P.G.S., "On 
the Basement-bed of the Keuper Formation in Wirral,* and the South-west of 
Lancashire." 
Interesting specimens of fossils and minerals were exhibited at the meeting 
by various members. 
[The abstracts of Prof. H. R. Goeppert, Capt. T. Spratt, and Mr. Morton's 
paper will be printed in the next number.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
On the Lower SiLURiAiJ Rocks in the South-East of Ireland, and 
ON a Hum.an Skeleton in an elevated Sea-Margin. — Dear Sir, — 
lu the year 1840, when persevering in what was considered at the time a hope- 
less task — that of searchmg for fossils in the contorted old schistose and sbity 
rocks so extensively developed in the counties of Waterford, Wexford, and 
KUkemiy — I at Icugth discovered at Duiicaunon, iu the county of Wexford, a 
patch of rocks which I considered might be referred to the Llandeilo forma- 
tion. Although the correctness of this view has been questioned, and it has 
been broadly asserted that all the Silurian Rocks in the south-east of Ireland 
* Wiiral is the wostorn extremity' of Chcshu'C. 
