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.
Discussion.
Mr. Hughes 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.
June 8, 1870.
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:—
1. On the Superficial Deposits of the South of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. By Thomas Codrington.
[Plates XXXVI. & XXXVII.]
Contents.
I. Introduction.
II. The mainland of Hampshire.
a. The New-Forest district.
b. East of Southampton Water.
c. Materials and nature of the gravel.
d. Mammalian remains and Flint-implements.
III. The Isle of Wight.
a. Gravel on the high ground of the north of the island.
b. Gravel on the south coast.
c. Gravel at Freshwater Gate.
d. Wasting of the coast, and origin of chines.
e. Gravel section at Foreland.
IV. General considerations.
a. Connexion of the Isle of Wight with the mainland.
b. Age of the gravel at different levels.
c. Conditions under which the gravel was deposited.
d. Upheaval since the human period.
e. Subsidence.
f. Denudation.
V. Summary.
I. Introduction.
The district of which it is proposed to treat in the following paper, is comprised between Poole and Portsmouth, and extends
