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THE GEOLOGIST. 
The larger proportion have been from the lower strata, especially the 
gault. 
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. Eose, characteristic small Belemnites, with 
Ammonites lautivs, Ammonites symmetricus, and fragments oi Inoceramus. 
The Foraminifera as yet detected by my 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) ; Nodosa ri a (not uncom- 
mon) ; Frondicularia (rare) ; DentaUna (not uncommon) ; Entosolenia 
(rare) ; Rotalina (not uncommon) ; Polymorphina (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. Botalina 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 "\^'hitiled Bone from the Barnwell 
Gravel," by Mr. Harry Seeley ; " On Tertiary Coal," by Prof. Ansted ; 
"Alluvial Deposits on the Ehine," by E. H. C. Godwin- Austen, F.E.S. ; 
" On an Ancient Sea-beach at Fort William," by Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys; 
" Glacial Deposits of Highlands of Scotland," by Eev. S. W. King; " On 
Wookey Hole Hyrena Den," by Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins; " Last Eruption of 
Vesuvius," by Dr. Daubeny ; " Extinct Volcano in Upper Burmali," 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 Palteontological 
Affinities," by Dr. Allman ; " Identity of L^pper 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 
tichorhinus," 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 
