Quod si cui mortalium cordi et curæ sit non tantum inventis hærere, atque iis uti, sed ad ulteriora
penetrare ; atque non disputando adversarium, sed opere naturam vincere ; denique non belle et probabiliter
opinari, sed certo et ostensive scire; tales, tanquam veri scientiarum filii, nobis (si videbitur) se adjungant
-Novum Organum, Præfatio.

VOLUME THE TWENTY-SECOND,

1866.

PART THE FIRST.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

LONDON:
LONGMAN, GREEN, READER, AND DYER.
PARIS:-FRIED, KLINCKSIECK, 11 RUE DE LILLE; J. ROTHSCHILD, 14 RUE DE BUCI.

LEIPZIG, T. 0. WEIGEL.

SOLD ALSO AT TIIE APARTMENTS OF THE SOCIETY.

MDCCCLXVI.

OF THE

OFFICERS

OF THE

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

Elected February 16th, 1866.

President.
Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.
Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. | Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S.
Prof. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. & L.S.

Prof. harles kamsay, F.R.S.

P. Martin Duncan, M.B.

Secretaries.

| John Evans, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A.

Foreign Secretary.
R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, Esq., F.R.S.

Treasurer.
Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.R.S.

COUNCIL. H. W. Bristow, Esq., F.R.S.

Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S. P. Martin Duncan, M.B.

John Carrick Moore, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. | Prof. John Morris. Earl of Enniskillen, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Sir R. I. Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S. R. Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S.E.

Robert W. Mylne, Esq., F.R.S. John Evans, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A.

Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.R.S. R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, Esq., F.R.S. Prof. A. C. Ramsay, M.A., F.R.S. William John Hamilton, Esq., F.R.S. Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Prof. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. & L.S.

Capt. T. A. B. Spratt, R.N., C.B., F.R.S. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.S.

Lieut.-Col. R. Strachey, R.E., F.R S. & L.S. Prof. T. Rupert Jones.

Rev. Thomas Wiltshire, M.A., F.R.A.S. M. Auguste Laugel.

assistant-Secretary, Librarian, and Curator.

II. M. Jenkins, Esq.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART 1.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

Page
Adams, Dr. A. LEITH. On Fossil Chelonians from the Ossiferous
Caves and Fissures of Malta .....

594
On the Discovery of Remains of Halitherium in the Miocene
Deposits of Malta..

695
BAUERMAN, H., Esq. On the Copper-mines of the State of Michi-
gan

448
BRINE, Commander L. On the recent Volcanic Disturbances at
Santorino. [Abstract.] .

318
Bristow, H. W., Esq. On Supposed Remains of the Crag on the
North Downs near Folkestone

553

BRODIE, Rev. P. B. On a Section of Lower Lias and Rhætic Beds,

near Wells, Somerset ...

93

CARPENTER, Dr. W. B. On the Structure and Affinities of Eozoön

Canadense.

219

CLARKE, The Rev. W. B. On the Occurrence and Geological Posi-

tion of Oil-bearing Deposits in New South Wales. [Abridged.] 439

DAWKINS, W. B., Esq. On the Fossil British Oxen. Part I. Bos

Urus, Cæsar ....

391

DAWSON, Dr. J. W. On the Conditions of the Deposition of Coal,

more especially as illustrated by the Coal-formation of Nova

Scotia and New Brunswick. (With 9 Plates.)....

95

On supposed Burrows of Worms in the Laurentian Rocks

608

of Canada ....

Dawson, R., Esq. On the Occurrence of dead Littoral Shells in the

Bed of the German Ocean, forty miles from the 'Coast of Aber-

deen. [Abridged.]

260

Page

DÉCIGALA, M. On the recent Volcanic Disturbances at Santorino.

[Abstract.]

318

DELENDA, A., Esq. On the recent Volcanic Disturbances at Santorino

[Abstract.]

318

DUNCAN, Dr. P. MARTIN. On some Spaces formerly occupied by Se-

lenite, in the Lower Eocene Clays of the London Basin; with

Remarks on the Origin and Disappearance of the Mineral

12

EGERTON, Sir P. de M. G. On a New Species of Acanthodes from
the Coal-shales of Longton. (With î Plate.)

408

FISHER, The Rev. 0. On the Relation of the Norwich or Fluvio-

marine Crag to the Chillesford Clay or Loam

19

On the Warp (of Mr. Trimmer)—its Age and probable

Connexion with the Last Geological Events. [Abridged.].... 553
FLOWER, J. W., Esq. On some Flint Implements lately found in

the Valley of the Little Ouse River, near Thetford. (Abstract.] 507
FOUQUÊ, M. On the recent Volcanic Disturbances at Santorino.
[Abstract.].......

318

GODWIN-AUSTEN, Capt. H. On the Carboniferous Rocks of the

Valley of Kashmere; with Notes on the Brachiopoda, by T.

DAVIDSON, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. (With 2 Plates.).

29

GODWIN-AUSTEN, R. A. C., Esq. On the Submerged Forest-beds

of Porlock Bay

1

On the Kainozoic Formations of Belgium.....

228

GUPPY, R. J. L., Esq. On the Tertiary Mollusca from Jamaica.

(With 3 Plates.)....

281

On the Tertiary Brachiopoda from Trinidad. (With part

of 1 Plate.)....

295

On Tertiary Echinoderms from the West Indies. (With

part of 1 Plate.)

On the Relations of the Tertiary Formations of the

West Indies; with a Note on a New Species of Ranina
from the Tertiary Strata of Trinidad, by H. WOODWARD, Esq.,
F.G.S.; and a Note on the Orbitoides and Nummulinæ of the
Tertiary Asphaltic Bed, Trinidad, by Prof. T. R. JONES, F.G.S.
(With 1 Plate.)....

570
HARKNESS, Prof. R. On the Metamorphic and Fossiliferous Rocks
of the County of Galway

506
and H. NICHOLSON, Esq. On the Geology of the Lake-
country; with a Note on Two New Species of Trilobites, by

J. W. Salter, Esq., A.L.S., F.G.S.

480

297

On the Lower Silurian Rocks of the Isle of Man 488
Page

HOLLAND, The Rev. F. W. On the Geology of Sinai. [Abstract.] 491
HUGHES, T. M-K., Esq. On the Junction of the Thanet Sand and

the Chalk, and of the Sandgate Beds and Kentish Rag... 402

JAMIESON, T. F., Esq. On the Glacial Phenomena of Caithness.... 201

JUKES, J. B., Esq. On the Carboniferous Slate (or Devonian Rocks)

and the Old Red Sandstone of South Ireland and North Devon 320

KEENE, W. Esq. On the Brown Cannel, or Petroleum, Coal-seams

at Colley Creek, Liverpool Plains, New South Wales........ 435

KING, Prof. W., and Prof. T. H. ROWNEY. On the so-called Eozoonal
Rock. (With 2 Plates.)

185
LLOYD, St. V., Esq. On the Recent Volcanic Disturbances at San-
torino. [Abstract.]

318
LOCKE-TRAVERS, W. T., Esq. On the Formation of Lake-basins in
New Zealand.....

254
NEALE, Lieut.-Col. E. St. J. On the Discovery of New Gold-depo-
sits in the District of Esmeraldas, Ecuador. ....

593
PIKE, J. W., Esq. On some remarkable “ Ileaves” or Throws in
Penhalls Mine.

535

PLANT, J., Esq. On the Discovery of Primordial Fossils in the

Lingula-flags in the Neighbourhood of Tyddyngwladis Silver-

lead Mine. [Abstract.] .....

505

SALTER, J. W., Esq. On Faults in the Drift-gravel at Hitchin, Herts 565

SEELEY, H., Esq. On the Gravels and Drift of the Fenland.

[Abridged.]

470

TAWNEY, E. B., Esq. On the Western Limit of the Rhætic Beds in

South Wales, and on the Position of the Sutton Stone ; with a
Note on the Corals, by Dr. P. MARTIN DUNCAN, Sec. G.S.

(With 2 Plates.).
Tryon, Commander G. On the recent Volcanic Disturbances at San-
torino. [Abstract.].....

318

TYLOR, A., Esq. On the Interval of Time which has passed between

thé Formation of the Upper and Lower Valley-gravels of Eng-

land and France

463

69

Watson, The Rev. R. B. On the Marine Origin of the Parallel

Roads of Glen Roy. [Abstract.].

9

WHITAKER, W., Esq. On the “Lower London Tertiaries” of

Kent. (With 1 Plate.).....

404

WILLIAMSON, Prof. W. C. On a Cheirotherian Footprint from the

Base of the Keuper Sandstone of Daresbury, Cheshire. [Abstract.] 534

WOOD, S. V., Esq. On the Structure of the Red Crag

538

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