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528 and the middle gravels, sands, and marls, are absent from both Westmoreland and Cumberland, the upper Boulder-clays only being represented. The dispersion of the Wastdale-Crag blocks is therefore of recent occurrence in connexion with the Pleistocene epoch. There are reasons, however, for inferring that this dispersion took place at a period before the Clyde beds were formed, and at a time when, in lower localities, the upper Boulder-clays were still being deposited.

Mr. pointed out some difficulties in accepting the theory of the transport of these blocks by means of coast-ice, but was not able to offer any better solution of the question than that suggested by the author.

Henry G. Vennor, Esq., of the Geological Survey of Canada, Montreal; Alexander Kendall Mackinnon, Esq., M. Inst. C.E., Director-General of Public Works, Montevideo, South America, and Arthur Roope Hunt, Esq., Quintella, Torquay, were elected Fellows of the Society.

The following communications were read:— 

district of which it is proposed to treat in the following paper, is comprised between Poole and Portsmouth, and extends