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Mr. R. D. Darbishire, F.G.S., also communicated some 
notes made during a visit in the past summer to the Swedish 
shell-beds of Uddevalla and the neighbouring district, and 
exhibited a collection of the fossils of remarkable extent 
and beauty. He referred to the notices of these fossils by 
Linmeus, 1747 (9 species), and others ; by Sir C. Lyell, 1834, 
in his paper on the proofs of a rising of the land in Sweden 
(Philos. Trans. 1834) (25 species) ; by Mr. J. G. Jeffreys* 
1863, British Ass. Rep. (85 shells, and 14 other invertebrata), 
and M. Thuden, 1866 (116 specimens of shells), and to the 
great collections of Mr. R. Thorburn in the Museum of 
Uddevalla, and Dr. Malm in that at Gothenburg. The two 
latest lists must be used with discrimination as they are 
conchological rather than geological ; each enumerating in 
one consecutive list fossils from older, newer and compara- 
tively recent beds. 
He described the great deposits at Kapellebacken S.W. 
and at Samnerod, Bracke and Kurod, N.E. of Uddevalla, 
and noted especially the following facts as proving that, 
whether the greater part of those vast accumulations of 
remains had been drifted into the bottom of the ancient 
fiords or not, some at least of the shells had lived where 
they are now found. The perfect and unviolated occurrence 
of the species named, the horizontal position of the small 
beds of sand and shingle in which some of the shells are 
found, point to very steady and slow movement. Sir Charles 
Lyell indicated the present rise of the southern part of 
Sweden as at the rate of 3 feet per century. As the highest 
beds at Uddevalla are about 206 (English) feet above the 
level of the sea, this means that they have been rising for at 
least 7,000 years. How long it was before they emerged 
from the water, that the lower parts of the deposit, which 
at Kapellebacken are apparently more than 70 or 80 feet 
thick, were laid in the bottom of the sea, there is no record. 
The most elevated beds of the district appear to be those at 
