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Mr. Leadbeater exhibited specimens of twelve new species of 

 Birds from the interior of South America, and from the Friendly 

 Islands, of which he proposed shortly to lay descriptions before 

 the Linnean Society. The distinguishing characters of each were 

 explained by Mr. Vigors. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 2, 1827. — The Society having assembled this even- 

 ing for the session : — 



An extract was read, of A letter from Captain P. P. King, 

 R,N., to Dr. Fitton, P.G.S., dated at Rio de Janeiro, 10th June, 

 1827 ; — with some observations on the specimens sent home by 

 Captain King ; by the President, 



The reading was begun of a paper. On the Geology of Tor 

 and Babbacombe Bays, Devon ; by H. T. De la Beche, Esq., 

 F.R.S. &c. 



Nov. 16. — The reading of Mr. De la Beche's paper, begun at 

 the last meeting, was concluded. 



In his account of the carboniferous limestone, the authour gives 

 a general list of the organic remains in this deposit : including 

 Trilobites, Encrinites, Corals, Nautili, Orthocerce, and several 

 species of testaceous Mollusca, characteristic of the carboni- 

 ferous limestone. A very singular fossil also is figured, which 

 appears to have been attached in the manner of the Alcyonia ; 

 but whether it is to be classed with the Corals, or considered as 

 intermediate between the Crinoidea and Echinodermata, has not 

 yet been determined. The cavern, called Kent's Hole, near 

 Torquay on the N.E., lately celebrated from its containing the 

 remains of various antediluvian animals, is in this carboniferous 

 limestone. At Westerland, there is a schistose and micaceous 

 variety of grauwacke, containing stems of Encrinites, Corals, and 

 bivalve shells. 



A paper was read, entitled Supplementary Remarks on the 

 Strata of the Oolitic series, and the Rocks associated with them. 



