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LONDON Geological Society, February 8.—R. Etheridge, F.R.S., president, in the chair.—Ridley Henderson, William John, and James Robert Millar Robertson, M. D., were elected Fellows, and Prof. S. Lovén, of Stockholm, a Foreign Member of the Society.—The following communications were read:– Description of some Iguanodon remains discovered at Brook, Isle of Wight, indicating a new species, Iguanodon Seelyi, by J. W. Hulke, F.R.S.—On a peculiar bed of angular drift on the high Lower Chalk Plain between Didcot and Chilton, toy Prof. J. Prestwich, F.R.S. In making a railway from the main line to Chilton, this bed of drift was cut through for a depth of about 11/4 mile. It lies on a flat plain extending from the foot of the escarpment of upper chalk to the top of that of lower chalk. In places it is full 28 feet thick. At first a fine chalk rubble, it becomes after a while coarse, and s divided by clay beds into an upper and a lower deposit. Here small boulders and bones occur, the latter much shattered; but Elephas primigenius, Rhinoceros tichorhinus (?), Bison priscus, Ceruus tarandus, Equus, &c., have been identified. The boulders are Sarsen-stone, and there are small fragments of flint. Shells of Pupa marginata, Helix hispida, and H. pulchella have been found. The drift (which is widely spread) is from 150 to 260 feet above the Thames, at highest 407 feet above the sea. The author compares it with the rubble-beds overlying the raised beaches of Sangatte and Brighton. It is unconnected with any river-course, is not of marine origin, and its materials, where not local, are derived from the southward.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 25, 451–452 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025451b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/025451b0