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-FIRST.

1865.

PART THE FIRST.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

LONDON:
DON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, AND GREEN.
PARIS:-FRIED. KLINCKSIECK, 11 rue de LILLE; J. ROTHSCHILD, 14 RUE DE BUCI;
LEIPZIG, T. O. WEIGEL.

SOLD ALSO AT THE APARTMENTS OF THE SOCIETY.

MDCCCLXV.

Secretaries.

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

Foreign Secretary.

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

Treasurer.

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

COUNCIL.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

BLACKMORE, Dr. H. P. On the Discovery of Flint Implements in the
Drift at Milford Hill, Salisbury. [Abridged.]

.....

BRODIE, The Rev. P. B. On the Lias Outliers at Knowle and

Wootton Warwen in South Warwickshire, and on the Presence

of the Lias or Rhætic Bone-bed at Copt Heath, its furthest

Northern Extension hitherto recognized in that County

BRYCE, Dr. J. On the Occurrence of Beds in the West of Scotland

beneath the Boulder-clay

.....

On the Order of Succession in the Drift-beds of the Island

of Arran

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250 .

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213

204

BUSK, G., Esq., and the late Dr. H. FALCONER. On the Fossil

Contents of the Genista Cave, Gibraltar...

364

CARPENTER, Dr. W. B. Additional Note on the Structure and af-
finities of Eozoon Canadense. (With 2 Plates.) . . . .

59

CROSSKEY, The Rev. H. W. On the Tellina-calcarea Bed at Chappel
Hall, near Airdrie

....

219

DAWKINS, W. B., Esq. On the Mammalian Remains found by E.

Wood, Esq., near Richmond, Yorkshire; with an Introductory

Note on the Deposit in which they were found, by E. WOOD,

Esq., F.G.S., and G. E. ROBERTS, Esq., F.G.S. [Abstract.].. 493

DAWSON, Dr. J. W. On the Structure of certain Organic Remains

in the Laurentian Limestones of Canada. (With 2 Plates.) .. 51 ·

DUNCAN, Dr. P. MARTIN. A Description of the Echinodermata from

the Strata on the South-eastern Coast of Arabia, and at Bagh on

the Nerbudda, in the Collection of the Geological Society

and G. P. WALL, Esq. A Notice of the Geology of Jamaica,
especially with reference to the District of Clarendon; with
Descriptions of the Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene Corals of
the Islands. (With 2 Plates.).

349

1

ELLIOT, Sir C. On the Recent Earthquake at St. Helena. [Ab-

stract.]

FALCONER, The late Dr. H. On the asserted Occurrence of Human

Bones in the ancient Fluviatile Deposits of the Nile and

Ganges; with comparative Remarks on the Alluvial Formation

of the two Valleys

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45

372

On the Species of Mastodon and Elephant occurring in the

fossil State in Great Britain. Part II. Elephant (imperfect).. 253

FOSTER, Dr.C. LE NEVE, and W. TOPLEY, Esq. On the Superficial

Deposits of the Valley of the Medway, with Remarks on the

Denudation of the Weald

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

Valley of Kashmere; with Notes on the Carboniferous Bra-

chiopoda, by T. Davidson, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S.; and an Intro-

duction and Résumé, by R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, Esq.,

F.R.S., For. Sec. G. S. [Abstract.]. . . . . .

HAAST, Dr. J. Notes on the Causes which have led to the Exca-
vation of deep Lake-basins in Hard Rocks in the Southern Alps
of New Zealand. [Abridged.]..

Notes to a Sketch-map of the Province of Canterbury,

New Zealand, showing tho Glaciation during the Pleistocene

and Recent Periods as far as explored; with an Appendix on the

Climate of the Pleistocene Epoch of New Zealand.”.

443

492

133

133

HARKNESS, Prof. R. On the Lower Silurian Rocks of the South-

east of Cumberland and the North-east of Westmoreland......

HECTOR, Dr. J. On the Geology of Otago, New Zealand

235

124

HERSCHEL, Sir J. F. W. Notes accompanying some Rhomboidal

Specimens of Iron Sandstone, &c., presented to the Society;

with a Note by Captain T. LONGWORTH DAMES. [Abstract.].. 421

HOLL, Dr. H. B. On the Geological Structure of the Malvern Hills

and adjacent Districts...

72

HUNT, T. S., Esq. On the Mineralogy of certain Organic Remains

from the Laurentian Rocks of Canada..

67

JAMIESON, T. F., Esq. On the History of the Last Geological

Changes in Scotland

161

KEENE, W., Esq. On the Coal-measures of New South Wales;

with Spirifer, Glossopteris, and Lepidodendron....

137

LANKESTER, E. RAY, Esq. On the Sources of the Mammalian Fossils

of the Red Crag, and on the Discovery of a New Mammal in that

Deposit, allied to the Walrus. (With 2 Plates.)

221.

LARTET, M. E. Note on Ovibos moschatus, Blainville

474

LOGAN, Sir W. E. On the Occurrence of Organic Remains in the

Laurentian Rocks of Canada....

MATTHEW, G. F., Esq. On the Azoic and Palæozoic Rocks of
Southern New Brunswick. (With 1 Plate.) .

MURCHISON, Sir R. I. Note on communicating the Notes and Map

of Dr. JULIUS HAAST upon the Glaciers and Rock-basins of

New Zealand. [Abstract]

PHILLIPS, Prof. J. Note on the Geology of Harrogate

PRESTWICH, J., Esq. Additional Observations on the Raised Beach
of Sangatte with reference to the Date of the English Channel,
and the Presence of Loess in the Cliff Section

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45

422

129

232

440

RUBIDGE, Dr. R. N. On the Changes rendered necessary in the

Geological Map of South Africa by recent Discoveries of Fossils. 437

SALTER, J. W., Esq. On some Additional Fossils from the Lin-

gula-flags; with a Note on the Genus Anopolenus, by H. HICKS,

Esq., M.R.C.S.

SANDBERGER, Dr. F. Results of Geological Observations in Baden

and Franconia

SPRUCE, R., Esq. Note on the Volcanic Tufa of Latacunga, at the

foot of Cotopaxi; and on the Cangáua, or Volcanic Mud of the

Quitenian Andes. [Abstract.]

476

434

249

STOLICZKA, Dr. F. On the Character of the Cephalopoda of the

South Indian Cretaceous Rocks

407

TATE, R., Esq. On the Correlation of the Cretaceous Formations

of the North-east of Ireland. (With 3 Plates.)....

15

WALLACE, W., Esq. On the Growth of Flos Ferri, or Coralloidal

Arragonite. [Abridged.]

413

WARREN, Lieut. C. Notes on the Caves of Gibraltar. [Abstract.] 371

WHITAKER, W., Esq. On the Chalk of Buckinghamshire, and on

the Totternhoe Stone

On the Chalk of the Isle of Thanet ..

On the Chalk of the Isle of Wight ....

398

WOOD, S. V., jun., Esq. On the Drift of the East of England and

its Divisions. [Abstract.]...

WOODS, The Rev. J. E. T. On some Tertiary Deposits in the Colony

of Victoria, Australia; with a Note on the Corals, by P. MAR-

TIN DUNCAN, M.B., Sec. G.S. [Abridged.]

WOODWARD, H., Esq. On a new Genus of Eurypterida, from the

Lower Ludlow Rock of Leintwardine, Shropshire.

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