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THE GEOLOGIST. 
ing and size, — bear, in the general style of the bold wavy ridges of 
their exposed overlying portions, a character which there is no mistaking, 
no matter what their position. Yours truly, 
W. Davies. 
March 12, 1863. 
The 'Rev. W. AUerCs Letter on Portland Fissures. \ 
SiE, — Will you allow me to say a few words on the subject of Mr. Al- 
len's letter in your last number ? If his suggestion be correct, how is it 
that animals of distinct genera, if not species, from any known to have in- 
habited Britain in historic times are found in the Middle and Upper 
Oolite? And, again, if he be right concerning the "Upper Oolite" of 
Portland, why may not the same have taken place with other geological 
formations after the Oolitic series ? And this we know cannot well be, as 
those succeeding it must be far older than 6-7000 years. Is it not more 
likely that during the Pliocene period (when man is supposed to have 
existed), the " Upper Oolite " of Portland was submerged ; and, as the re- 
mains of an extensive estuary (in Dorset and Hampshire) exist close at 
hand, may not the human remains referred to by Mr. Allen have been 
washed down to the sea and so deposited in the submerged strata, than 
that a fresh sedimentary deposit has taken place, and the whole forma- 
tion have been again upraised, and rent almost throughout, perhaps by 
volcanic action ? Hoping you will excuse these perhaps somewhat crude 
remarks, 
I remain, yours truly, 
Chaeles Jicks, Jun. 
Woodlands^ Thorjpe^ near Norwich^ March 23. 
Norway Horses. 
SiE, — At p. 26 of the ' Geologist ' is an inquiry about the teeth of JSTorway 
horses. Last autumn, in a Norwegian tour, a friend, Charles Montagu 
Doughty, Esq., picked up by the sea, and near the JNorth Cape, the tooth 
of a horse — which molar I have forgotten. It had not the aspect of a 
fossil, nor was it very recent, but, as Mr. Doughty suspected before I 
saw it, was certainly Fquus fossil/ s. Although I have often found on our 
own coasts teeth of Equiis cahallus in exactly the same state of preserva- 
tion, this cannot be regarded as more than suggestive evidence of the exis- 
tence of the fossil form, since horses are not now kept so far north. 
I am. Sir, faithfully yours, 
Haeet Seeley. 
Camhridgcy March 9, 1863. 
PEOCEEDIJSraS OF GEOLOaiCAL SOCIETIES. 
Geological Society.— jFe5rw«ry 1863.—" On the Middle and 
Upper Lias of the Dorsetshire Coast." By E. C. H. Day, Esq. 
The subdivisions of the Lias instituted by Sir Henry de la Beche and 
