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Both in the Isle of Wight, and in Hordwell Cliff, Hants, the Headon beds, above- mentioned, rest on white sands usually devoid of fossils, and used in the Isle of Wight for making glass. In one of these sands Dr. Wright found Chama squamosa, a Barton Clay shell, in great plenty, and certain impressions of marine shells have been found in sands supposed to be of the same age in Whitecliff Bay.

The white and green marls of the Headon series, and some of the accompanying limestones, often resemble the Eocene strata of France in mineral character and colour in so striking a manner as to suggest the idea that the sediment was derived from the same region or produced contemporaneously under very similar geographical circumstances. Solenastraea cellulosa, Duncan.

TERTIARY: Headon Series and beds between the Paris Gypsum and the Gres de Beauchamp: 14: 10 English, 4 French. Barton Clay and Sables de Beauchamp: 0. London Clay, including the Kyson Sand: 7 English. Plastic Clay and Lignite: 9: 7 French, 2 English. Sables de Bracheux: 1 French. Thanet Sands and Lower Landenian of Belgium: 0. SECONDARY: Maestricht Chalk: 0. White Chalk: 0. Chalk Marl: 0.

The prevalence of salt-water remains is most conspicuous in some of the central parts of the formation. Helix labyrinthica, Say. Neritina concava, Sowerby. Lymnea caudata, Edw. Cerithium concavum, Sowerby. Searles Wood in Hordwell Cliff. It is also met with in Headon Hill, in the same beds.

A.3: Headon series, Isle of Wight: Calcaire siliceux, or Travertin Inferieur. A.4: Barton series. Sands and clays of Barton Cliff, Hants: Gres de Beauchamp, or Sables Moyens. B.1: Bracklesham series: Calcaire Grossier. B.2: Alum Bay and Bournemouth beds: Wanting in France? B.2: Wanting in England?: Soissonnais Sands, or Lits Coquilliers. C.1: London Clay: Argile de Londres, Cassel, near Dunkirk.

Both the French and Italian police are very astute, but money always talks. It is the same at a far-remote frontier station as in any circle of society. Here was a well-known American the Customs officer had mentioned the name of Headon, which both police officers recognized an invalid sent with all haste to the famous surgeon in Turin.

His doctor ordered me to take him to Turin at once. We don't want any delay. He told me to give you this," and he slipped a note for a hundred lire into the man's hand. The officer expressed surprise, but the merry chauffeur of the rich American exclaimed: "Don't worry. The Americano is very rich; I only wish there were more of his sort about. He's the great Headon, the meat-canner of Chicago.

Sheltered by the bold headland is Alum Bay, with its tinted sands, gray, buff, and red, and from Headon Hill, its eastern boundary, the coast stretches away to Yarmouth, a little town on the Solent, where are the remains of one of the defensive blockhouses built by Henry VIII. The shores of the strait trend to the north-east, with pleasant views across on the coast of Hampshire, until the northernmost point of the Isle of Wight is reached, where its chief stream, the Medina, flows into the strait through an estuary about five hundred yards wide.

The Osborne beds are distinguished by peculiar species of Paludina, Melania, and Melanopsis, as also of Cypris and the seeds of Chara. These beds are seen both in Whitecliff Bay, Headon Hill, and Alum Bay, or at the east and west extremities of the Isle of Wight. The upper and lower portions are fresh-water, and the middle of mixed origin, sometimes brackish and marine.

These beds rest on the Lower Headon, and are considered as the equivalent of the middle part of the Headon series, many of the shells being common to the brackish-water or Middle Headon beds of Colwell and Whitecliff Bays, such as Cancellaria muricata, Sowerby, Fusus labiatus, Sowerby, etc. In these beds at Brockenhurst, corals, ably described by Dr.