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on them, referred to his late paper in the Philosophical Transac- 

 tions, of which he gave an account, and announced his expectation 

 of continuing his researches. 



Mr Low made some observations on the products collected in 

 the chimneys of smelting and other furnaces, and promised some 

 farther remarks on the recommendation of the Chemical Section of 

 last year relative to that subject. 



Section C. — Geology and Geography. 



CJiairman — Professor Jameson. 



Depvty- Chairmen — Major-General Lord Greenock. G. B. Green- 



OUGH, Esq. President of the Geological Society of London. 



Secretaries — Professor Phillips. T. Jameson Torrie, E^q. 

 Rev. J. Yates. 



Committee. — Dr Buckland. Dr Boase. J. Bryce, Esq. Major 

 Gierke. Professor Sedgwick. Colonel Silvertop. H. T. M. Witham, 

 Esq. William Smith, Esq. J. Taylor, Esq. W. C. Trevelyan, Esq. 

 Rev. J. Yates. R. L Murchison, Esq. William Hutton, Esq. 

 Charles Lyell, Esq. L. Homer, Esq. J. B. Pentland, Esq. B. 

 Griffith, Esq. William Copland, Esq. Dr Hibbert. R. Steven- 

 son, Esq. Lieutenant Murphy. William Clift, Esq. Sir Thomas 

 Dick Lauder. Sir George Mackenzie. Rev. Dr Fleming. Dr 

 Traill. Captain Maconochie. Henry Woolcombe, Esq. Dr E. 

 Turner. S. P. Pratt, Esq. M. Agassiz. William Nicol, Esq. 

 Rev. Mr Turner. 



Professor Jameson in the Chjiir. 



The recommendations of the Committee of Geology at Cambridge 

 were read, and the researches undertaken in compliance therewith 

 reported to the meeting. The communications presented to the 

 Section were enumerated, and, in consequence of a resolution of 

 the Section, the discussion on some views advocated by Dr Boase, 

 relating to Primary Rocks, was commenced by this gentleman stat- 

 ing some of these views, and finally limiting the subject of the dis- 

 cussion to the question, whether Primary Slates are, or are not, 

 stratified ? 



In proposing this specific question, Dr Boase stated the difficul- 

 ties which occurred in liminey as to the meaning of the term stra- 

 tification, and noticed the various definitions of different geological 

 authors, depending on considerations of the parallelism of certain sur- 

 faces of division, on the curvatures and contortions existing in them, 



