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few feet of buff-coloured sand and laminated grey clay in places 
intervening ; at Hasborough — where the deposit itself is contorted 
together witb the rootlets — it is overlaid by Cromer Till, which 
latter, close by, is underlaid by a little buff-coloured sand and 
laminated grey clay ; and at Bunton it is overlaid by twelve to 
fifteen feet of buff-coloured sand — in which is some gravel and 
laminated grey clay — which latter underlies the Cromer Till and 
Contorted Drift. Thus, by the best of all geological evidence, 
namely, Superposition, it is perfectly clear that this Mammalian 
deposit, with rootlets, did precede the Lower Glacial beds ; tliere- 
fore, it is not of interglacial age as suggested, cautiously I admit, 
by Messrs. Wood and Harmer, and consequently will not in any 
way support their views of East Anglian interglacial valley ex- 
cavations. 
It is well known that Messrs. Wood and Harmer liave long been 
sceptical as to the Forest-bed series at Kessingland — owing, I 
presume, to certain complications in this cliff-section — beiug of 
the same age as the Forest-bed series of the Cromer coast ; and, I 
think I am correct in stating, that, in their numerous publications, 
they have entirely ignored the existence of the Forest-bed series at 
Hopton and Corton, which, in my opinion, forms a very important 
link in the series, inasmuch as that deposit, as I have already stated, 
is identical in every respect with the Eootlet-bed of Kessingland, to 
the south of it, and to that of Hasborough to the north of it. Mr. 
Gunn, on the contrary — from the evidence of the Mammalian 
remains, associated E7mo-beds, etc. — has long held the opinion that 
the Kessingland Forest-bed series belonged to the same series as 
that of the Cromer coast, the correctness of which opinion my 
investigations fully eonfirm. 
As I have used the terms “Lower Glacial series” and “Forest- 
bed series ” in this communication, I wisli particularly to state, I do 
not necessarily adopt all the views of the authors of those terms 
respecting the beds included by them in these series ; and as I hope 
to treat of the relation of the Forest-bed series to the Chillesford 
Clay in some future paper, I have not referred to that subject here. 
III. — On THE SüCCESSION AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE BEDS BETWEEN 
THE ClIALK AND THE LOWER BOULDER-CLAY IN THE NeIGHBOUR- 
hood of Cromer. 
By Clement Reid, F.G.S. ; 
Of tlie Geological Survey of England and Wales. 
B Y the permission of the Director-General of the Geological 
Survey I am enabled to publish a short account of the results 
arrived at during a detailed examination of the cliffs between Wey- 
bourn and Mundesley on the coast of Norfolk. 
In the course of the Survey I have found it necessary to make 
considerable alterations in the generally accepted Classification and 
succession of the Pliocene beds near Cromer, while my views with 
regard to the mode of formation of the so-called “ Forest Bed ” 
differ materially from those published by previous observers. To 
