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THE GEOLOGIST. 
Somme and elsewhere ; and he stated that he was now enabled to add 
two new localities near Bedford — Summerhouse Hill and Honey Hill — 
to those already known as having furnished similar weapons. 
2. " On some Eecent Discoveries of Flint Implements in Drift Deposits 
in Hants and Wilts." By Mr. John Evans. 
Flint implements having recently been found on the seashore, about 
midway between Southampton and Gosport, by Mr. James Brown, of 
Salisbury, and also at Fisherton, near Salisbury, by Dr. H. P. Blackmore, 
of that place,* the author visited these localities in company with Mr. 
Prestwich, and gave the results of his observations in this paper. 
After describing the implements from near Southampton, and having 
shown that their condition is identical with that of the materials composing 
the gravel capping the adjacent cliff", Mr. Evans proceeded to review the 
evidence of the great antiquity of these remains, which rested mainly on 
the circumstance that these gravel-beds, like those of Keculver, are of flu- 
viatile origin, although now abutting on the sea. 
In like manner the author then described the Fisherton implements, 
and the gravel-pits from which they were obtained. The relation of the 
high-level gravels (in which the implements were found) to the lower-level 
gravels of the valley of the Avon was next discussed, and the geological 
features of the former deposits particularly described, lists of the fossils 
(including mammalia and land and freshwater shells) being also given. 
Mr. Evans came to the conclusion that the fossils bore evidence of the cli- 
mate, at the time when they were deposited, having been more rigorous, at 
any rate in the winter, than it now is ; and to this cause he attributed the 
comparatively greater excavating power of the early Postpliocene rivers. 
Manchester Philosophical Society.— Janwary 12, 1864.— The Presi- 
dent, Mr. Binney, made some remarks on the Lancashire and Cheshire 
Drift. In the year 1841 he first attempted to class the drift-deposits 
found in the neighbourhood of Manchester, in a small paper with a map, 
which he prepared for the Statistical Society of Manchester. In that me- 
moir he divided the foreign drift in the ascending order : — (1) Lower sand 
and gravel ; (2) till ; (3) upper sand and gravel ; and he described the more 
modern deposits found in valleys ; (4) as valley gravel. This order he 
adopted in a paper read before the Manchester Geological Society on the 
22nd December, 1842, "Notes on the Lancashire and Cheshire Drift," and 
printed by that Society in their Proceedings of 1843. In that paper, in 
treating of the upper beds of sand and gravel, he says, " At Manchester, it 
(the higher drift) is composed of lower gravel, till, and sand and gravel ; 
while at Hey\s'ood and Poynton, near the base of the Pennine chain, the 
beds of sand and gravel are parted by several beds of loam and clay." 
Again, in speaking of No. 3 deposit, he says, " The gently-rising lands of 
the two counties are generally composed of this deposit. It varies much 
both in its composition and thickness. Near the sea at Ormskirk, the till 
is sometimes found without it ; but as you proceed to the east it makes its 
appearance, and gradually thickens until it attains its greatest thickness 
near the base of the Pennine chain : not only does it increase in tliickness. 
but it becomes more complex, and contains beds of clay, marl, and loam of 
several yards in thickness. The country lying between Manchester, Bolton, 
Bury, Eochdale, Ashton, and Stockport, for the most part is upon it, and 
forms one great sandbank, which continues south into Cheshire." The same 
* This discovery has beeu recorded already in the ' Geologist,' and we trust the ac- 
knovvledgmeut will be duly made in the Quarterly Journal of the Society. 
