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 THE

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

OF

THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

PROCEEDINGS

OF

THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

January 26th, 1870.

Thomas Daniel Bott, Esq., 2 Osberne Villas, Talfourd Road, Peckham ; Edwin Buckland Kemp- Welch, Esq., 3 Beaumont Terrace, Bournemouth ; James Parkinson, Esq., F.C.S., Sarum House, Church Road, Upper Norwood, S. ; Henry Sewell, Esq., Villa del Valle, Mexico, and Thomas E. W. Walker, Esq., M.A., F.R.G.S., Athenaeum Club, London, and 6 Brock Street, Bath, were elected Fellows of the Society. The Rev. Dr. Oswald Heer, of Zurich, was elected a Foreign Member of the Society.

The following communication was read : —

On the Crag of Norfolk and associated Beds. By Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.R.S., President.

(The publication of this Paper is deferred.)

[Abstract.]

The author commenced by referring to his last paper, in which he divided the Red Crag into two divisions — a lower one, of variable oblique-bedded strata, and an upper one, of sands passing up into the clay known as the Chillesford clay. In 1849 he had alluded to the possibility of this clay being synchronous with the Norwich Crag. He has since traced this upper or Chillesford division of the Red Crag northwards, with a view to determine its relation to the Norwich Crag. He has found it at various places inland ; but the best exhibition of it occurs in the Easton Bavant Cliffs. He there found in it a group of shells similar to those at Chillesford, and under it the well-known bed of mammaliferous or Norwich Crag, with the usual shells. The author also showed that in this cliff and the one nearer Lowestoft traces of the Forest-bed clearly set in upon the Chillesford clay. He traced these beds at the base of Horton Cliff, and then passed on to the well-known cliffs of Happis-

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