VIII.—On the Relation of the Sands and Clays of Dorset and Hants to Those of Bovey Tracey

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I Have read with interest Mr. Lowe's article^l on Devonshire geology, in which he discusses the question whether the Bovey beds are Miocene or Eocene, and what may be their relation to the Hampshire and Dorsetshire Lower Bagshots.

In former years I have had some acquaintance with the Hants and Dorset beds, and I have seen the Bovey deposit and was struck with their similarity. I am much impressed with the weight of Mr. Lowe's objection that the enormous amount of detritus represented by the sands and clays extending from Bournemouth—or we may even say from Whitecliff Bay, I.W.—to Bovey can hardly have been derived from so small an area as Dartmoor.