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Ordinary meeting, 4th April, 1859
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01'dina1'Y Meeting. 4th April, 1859. Hyde Clarke, Esq., D.C.L., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the Meeting of the 8th March, 1859, were read and confirmed. The following ladies and gentlemen were elected Members of the Association: - Edwin Howard, Esq.; Algernon Bathurst, B.C.L.; Ed. P. H. Vaughan, Esq.; T. W. Butler, Esq.; W. Gray, Esq.; Mr. W. Bridger; 'V. Addams, Esq., F.G.S. ; Herbert Crawshay, Esq.; Mr. John Curry; Mr. Graham Y 001; Henry Crace, Elq.; Mr. Ralph G. Poulton; R. R. Prosser, F..sq.; Mr. Thomas Spiller; John Studdy Leigh, Esq. ; Mrs. E. Bohn; John Wickham Flower, Esq. ; Mr. Alexander Millar; Mark J. Lansdell, Esq., F.C.S. ; George R. Prosser, Esq. ; Dr. J. J. W. Watson, F.G.S. The following donations to the Library and Museum were announced:Two Pamphlets on "Certain new Genera of British Crinoids." From Ed. Wood, Esq., F.G.S. "The Geologist," for April, 1859. From S. J. Mackie, Esq., F.G.S. Extracts from the "Journal of the Chemical Society." By W. H. T. Allen, Esq. Extract from the" Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society," on the occurrence of Graphularia Wethe·rellii in nodules from the London Clay and the Crag. From the Author, N. T. Wetherell, Esq. A tooth of Mastodon giganteum, a coral (Cyatlwphyllum), and thirty-eight species of shells from the Tertiary deposits of North America. From J. Pickering, Esq. An interesting selection of fossils found in the London Clay, in the neighbourhood of Highgate, and at Sheppy. By N. T. 'N etherell, Esq. The President stated that, in accordance with the wishes of several of the Members, the General Committee had under consideration the establishment of short courses of Lectures on Geology and Mineralogy, and other allied :;l.lhject:;,and that they would Joe glad to receive
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the names of any of the Members who might be desirous of joining such classes.* The President, the Rev. Thomas Wiltshire, M.A., then read a Paper on the Red Chalk of England. It was stated that the red chalk occurs in situ only in the counties of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk. It is first seen at Speeton, about six miles from Flamborough Head, in Yorkshire, where it rests uncomformably upon the Speeton clay, and underlies the white chalk, being there about thirty feet, which appears to be the greatest thickness to which it attains. It is traceable from Speeton in a westerly direction for about twenty miles, and then, turning at a sharp angle, proceeds across Yorkshire towards the south-east, and disappears below the marsh-land about seven miles to the west of Hull. It reappears at Ferraby, in Lincolnshire, and from thence may be traced across Lincolnshire till it is lost in the Wash. On the south shore of the Wash, at Hunstanton, in N 01'folk, it is again found, and may be traced from that place to a few miles north of Lynn, where it is seen no more. In Lincolnshire and Norfolk it underlies the white chalk and rests upon a dark pebbly mass, which is supposed to belong to the lower greensand. At Hunstanton it is only four feet in thickness, and assumes a different character from that which it presents at Speeton, being much harder, darker in colour, and containing pebbles, which are not seen in the red chalk of the latter place. The red chalk appears to be very fossiliferous, containing serpulre, terebratulre, corals, and sponges, belemnites, &c., and from the circumstance that some of the belemnites are of the species characteristic of the gault, the red chalk was regarded by the author as the equivalent of that formation. A curious circumstance was mentioned in connexion with this subject. Although the red chalk does not appear in situ except in the localities above mentioned, it has been found in the form of rolled fragments in the drift at Muswell Hill, a fact which would seem to point to the conclusion that it must
* The Committee desire to acquaint Members generally, that S. J. Mackie, Esq., l!'.G.S., has consented to deliver, on Monday Evenings, commencing 9th May, 1859, a course of twelve lectures on Elementary Geology, for which a fee of five shillings has been determined on. Members desirous of attending the course are requested at once to send in their names to the Secretaries,
10 at one time have existed in large masses over a considorahle tract of' country. The fragments are not to be distinguished in general character nor by the fossils they contain from the red chalk of Hunstanton. An interesting discussion followed the reading of the Paper, in which the Chairman, N. 'r. Wetherell, Esq., Professor Tennant, F.G.S., S. J. Mackie, Esq., F.G.S., E. Cresy, Esq., H. T. Rickard, Esq., and several other Members and gentlemen present took part. It was announced that on Monday, the 2nd May next, S. J. Mackie, Esq., F.G.S., would read a Paper on the" Geology of the South-East of England."
NOTE.-The President's Paper will be printed and circulated amongst the Members of the Association.
01'dina1'Y Meeting. 4th April, 1859. Hyde Clarke, Esq., D.C.L., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the Meeting of the 8th March, 1859, were read and confirmed. The following ladies and gentlemen were elected Members of the Association: - Edwin Howard, Esq.; Algernon Bathurst, B.C.L.; Ed. P. H. Vaughan, Esq.; T. W. Butler, Esq.; W. Gray, Esq.; Mr. W. Bridger; 'V. Addams, Esq., F.G.S. ; Herbert Crawshay, Esq.; Mr. John Curry; Mr. Graham Y 001; Henry Crace, Elq.; Mr. Ralph G. Poulton; R. R. Prosser, F..sq.; Mr. Thomas Spiller; John Studdy Leigh, Esq. ; Mrs. E. Bohn; John Wickham Flower, Esq. ; Mr. Alexander Millar; Mark J. Lansdell, Esq., F.C.S. ; George R. Prosser, Esq. ; Dr. J. J. W. Watson, F.G.S. The following donations to the Library and Museum were announced:Two Pamphlets on "Certain new Genera of British Crinoids." From Ed. Wood, Esq., F.G.S. "The Geologist," for April, 1859. From S. J. Mackie, Esq., F.G.S. Extracts from the "Journal of the Chemical Society." By W. H. T. Allen, Esq. Extract from the" Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society," on the occurrence of Graphularia Wethe·rellii in nodules from the London Clay and the Crag. From the Author, N. T. Wetherell, Esq. A tooth of Mastodon giganteum, a coral (Cyatlwphyllum), and thirty-eight species of shells from the Tertiary deposits of North America. From J. Pickering, Esq. An interesting selection of fossils found in the London Clay, in the neighbourhood of Highgate, and at Sheppy. By N. T. 'N etherell, Esq. The President stated that, in accordance with the wishes of several of the Members, the General Committee had under consideration the establishment of short courses of Lectures on Geology and Mineralogy, and other allied :;l.lhject:;,and that they would Joe glad to receive
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the names of any of the Members who might be desirous of joining such classes.* The President, the Rev. Thomas Wiltshire, M.A., then read a Paper on the Red Chalk of England. It was stated that the red chalk occurs in situ only in the counties of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk. It is first seen at Speeton, about six miles from Flamborough Head, in Yorkshire, where it rests uncomformably upon the Speeton clay, and underlies the white chalk, being there about thirty feet, which appears to be the greatest thickness to which it attains. It is traceable from Speeton in a westerly direction for about twenty miles, and then, turning at a sharp angle, proceeds across Yorkshire towards the south-east, and disappears below the marsh-land about seven miles to the west of Hull. It reappears at Ferraby, in Lincolnshire, and from thence may be traced across Lincolnshire till it is lost in the Wash. On the south shore of the Wash, at Hunstanton, in N 01'folk, it is again found, and may be traced from that place to a few miles north of Lynn, where it is seen no more. In Lincolnshire and Norfolk it underlies the white chalk and rests upon a dark pebbly mass, which is supposed to belong to the lower greensand. At Hunstanton it is only four feet in thickness, and assumes a different character from that which it presents at Speeton, being much harder, darker in colour, and containing pebbles, which are not seen in the red chalk of the latter place. The red chalk appears to be very fossiliferous, containing serpulre, terebratulre, corals, and sponges, belemnites, &c., and from the circumstance that some of the belemnites are of the species characteristic of the gault, the red chalk was regarded by the author as the equivalent of that formation. A curious circumstance was mentioned in connexion with this subject. Although the red chalk does not appear in situ except in the localities above mentioned, it has been found in the form of rolled fragments in the drift at Muswell Hill, a fact which would seem to point to the conclusion that it must
* The Committee desire to acquaint Members generally, that S. J. Mackie, Esq., l!'.G.S., has consented to deliver, on Monday Evenings, commencing 9th May, 1859, a course of twelve lectures on Elementary Geology, for which a fee of five shillings has been determined on. Members desirous of attending the course are requested at once to send in their names to the Secretaries,
10 at one time have existed in large masses over a considorahle tract of' country. The fragments are not to be distinguished in general character nor by the fossils they contain from the red chalk of Hunstanton. An interesting discussion followed the reading of the Paper, in which the Chairman, N. 'r. Wetherell, Esq., Professor Tennant, F.G.S., S. J. Mackie, Esq., F.G.S., E. Cresy, Esq., H. T. Rickard, Esq., and several other Members and gentlemen present took part. It was announced that on Monday, the 2nd May next, S. J. Mackie, Esq., F.G.S., would read a Paper on the" Geology of the South-East of England."
NOTE.-The President's Paper will be printed and circulated amongst the Members of the Association.