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form one horizon ; the slate breccias of Blores Hill, Bradgate, 
Ulverscroft Mill, Markfield, Bardon, and High Towers, a second ; 
the coarse ash-beds of BensclifF, Chitterman Hill, Timberwood Hill, 
and the Monastery, a third ; and the quartzose rocks of Charley 
Wood, Charley, the Old Reservoir, and Blackbrook, a fourth. 
Hence they showed that the beds are considerably dislocated near 
the Syenites, which removes the main objection wliich previous 
writers have nrged against these being intrusive ; and they described 
the evidence they have obtained as to this being their real nature. 
This evidence included the description of actual contacts of igneous 
and sedimentary rock seen at two points in the wood south of 
Bradgate House, and at a third in Bradgate Park. 
They propose, in a continuation of the paper, to touch upon the 
Faults, and to describe in greater detail the microscopic structure of 
the rocks. 
COBBESPOITDEITCE. 
THE NORFOLK FOREST BED. 
Sir, — At your request, I gladly furnish you with all the informa- 
tion I can respecting the stools of trees being found, in situ, where 
they grew in the Forest-bed on the eastern coast. I have repeatedly 
seen them at Happisburgli, and once in the Company of Professor 
Sedgwick and of Professor Harry Seeley, who, at a meeting of the 
Geological Society in 1876, gave a vivid description of the appear- 
ance of the stools of trees, and of the gratification which Professor 
Sedgwick expressed on seeing them. 
1 have also seen them, in situ, at Bacton, on a recent excursion of 
several of the members of the Norwich Geological Society, by whom 
one stool in particular, which grew out of the blue clay of the soil 
of the forest, was examined, and ascertained to be rooted in its 
native soil. 
On the excursion to Cromer of the members of the British Asso- 
ciation in 1868, the Company assembled on the beach at Overstrand, 
at the spot where the stool of a tree stood on the soil of the forest. 
Being invited, I endeavoured to explain that the trees grew on the 
estuarine soil, in which the bones of the Elephas meridionalis were 
associated with Cetacean remains, after it was raised above the 
surface; and that then the growth of the forest commenced, of which 
the Elephas antiquus was the typical mammal. This stool was dug 
up by the direction of Lady Buxton, who placed it, where it now is, 
in the Norwich Museum. Mr. Reeve, tbe Curator, says that one of 
the roots was about four feet long, and he was obliged to have it 
shortened to get it into its case. 
The above mentioned are the principal places where remnants of 
the Forest-bed have survived its general destruction and denudation 
from Kessingland in Suffolk to Runton in Norfolk beyond Cromer. 
The trees were torn up, and together with fossil remains were re- 
deposited in the laminated beds above ; and hence it is, no doubt, 
that so few of the trees, or rather of the roots and stumps, are to be 
seen at present in situ, in proportion to the debris. The evidence, 
