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VIII. 
KKMAIiKS ON THE GEOLOGY OF COEION 
(UK.U) OX TIIK OCCASION OF TIIK SOCIKTY’s VISIT TO 
J. J. COL.MAN, ESQ., OF THAT 1'LACE). 
r>Y F. W. Harm EH, F.G.S., Ex-Presidcni. 
Read 31s/ fitly, 1879. 
Among the features of general interest wliich the study of the 
strata e.xposed in this clilf section, and immediately underlying it 
present, there arc two to which I propose to call your attention for 
a lew minutes this afternoon. I'irst, we are reminded that duriim 
comparatively recent geological times this part of the earth’s surfree 
has undergone changes of vast extent, and next, we are presented 
with a striking illustration of the imperfection of the geological 
record. 
Although the newest of the deposits avc liave here represented 
arc, measured by any standard of time which human experience, 
or even the limits of liistorical knowledge can furnish, of enormous 
€anti(]uity, they arc all of the most recent gcolocrical aije, beloimiii”' 
(with the exception of the fundamental rock of Norfolk and 
Suffolk, the Chalk, which is the latest of the Second.ary deposits) to 
that comjtaratively insignificant period of time which we term the 
Tertiary epoch. It may fairly be said that we ourselves are living 
in the 'lertiary period, since there is hardly any form of animal life 
which has yet been discovered in Tertiary strata which has not 
still its living representatives. 
