On the Origin of the Chesil Bank, and on the Relation of the Existing
<2*^ t PRESTWICH ORIGIN OF THE CHESIL BANK. // ON THE ORIGIN OF THE CHESIL BANK. THE KELATION OF THE EXISTING BEACHES TO PAST GEOLOGICAL CHANGES INDEPENDENT OF THE PEESENT COAST ACTION. By JOSEPH PKESTWICH, M.A., F.K.S., V.P.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford. WITH AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISCUSSION UPON THE PAPER. EDITED by JAMES FORREST, Assoc. Inst. C.E. SECBETAItY. By permission of the Council. Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of The Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. xl. Session 1874-75.—Part ii. LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. 1875. [The right of Publication and of Translation is reserved.^ ADVERTISEMENT. The Institution is not, as a body, responsible for the facts and opinions advanced in the following pages. —; THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. February 2, 1875. THOS. E. HAERISON, President, in the Chair. The following Candidates were balloted for and duly elected : Kennett Bayley, Eichard Frederick Church, Alfred Holt, Lindley William Paynter, and William Spooner Till, as Members Harry Anstey, Albert Otto Bieber, Benjamin Biram, Frank Charles Black, William Joseph Brown, Charles Burton, Fran- cisco Correia de Mesquita Cardozo, Stud. Inst. C.E., Charles Eckersley Daniel, Edward George Da vies, St. John Vincent Day, Frederic Eliot Duckham, James Kichard Fletcher, Stud. Inst. C.E., Frederick Flood, M.A., Philip Affleck Fraser, Joseph Jones Gardiner, Stud. Inst. C.E., James Hart, Edward Hedley, Henry Percy Holt, Henry Irwin, Charles Jones, John Alfred Jones, John Hunter Jones, Stud. Inst. C.E., Edward Baldwin John Knox, Thomas William Large, William Longworth, Niel McDougall, Cathcart William Methven, Frederick Ernest Muntz, B.A., Edmund Olander, Joseph Salter Olver, John Pagan, George Edward Page, Stud.
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