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                      The Geologists' Association.

                                   ON

                       THE RED CHALK OF ENGLAND.

                                   BY

                 THE REV. THOS. WILTSHIRE, M.A. F.G.S.
               PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION.

                            A PAPER READ AT

                          THE GENERAL MEETING,

                            4TH APRIL, 1859.

                                LONDON:
                      PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATION,
                                  AND
        PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF "THE GEOLOGIST," 154, STRAND.
                                 1859.




LIST OF PLATES.


    PLATE I.

    Fig.
    1. Inoceramus Coquandianus, from Speeton.
    2. Fragment of Inoceramus, striated by glacial action, Muswell Hill.
    3. Nautilus simplex, Hunstanton.
    4. Inoceramus Crispii, Hunstanton.
    5. I. tenuis, Hunstanton.


    PLATE II.

    1. Spongia paradoxica, Hunstanton.
    2. Siphonia pyriformis, Hunstanton.
    3. Cardiaster suborbicularis, Hunstanton.
    4. Ostrea frons, Muswell Hill.
    5.