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One is struck with their disorder ; they are in every posture ; 

 the bivalves, which are most numerous, being no where in couples, 

 nor horizontal, as when inhabited : a multivalve shell, peculiar 

 to the locality, is in all cases found scattered, its parts being 

 thrown asunder; the delicate sea-urchin, unable to stand the 

 rush, is no where found perfect, though here and there many 

 small portions may be gathered. 



In short, the shells are as much confused and involved as if 

 they had been sifted through large meshes ; and thus it would ap- 

 pear as if the whole had been at once thrown into its present po- 

 sition by some mighty convulsion which violently overturned and 

 interspersed them. 



Monday^ 6th April. 

 Sir T. M. BRISBANE, Bart., G. C B., Pres., in the Chair. 



The following Candidates were elected Fellows of the So^ 

 ciety : — 



G. A. Stuart, Esq. 



Right Hon. T. B. Macauley, M. P. 



The following Donations were presented : — 



Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de I'Academie des 

 Sciences, 1840. P"" Semestre. Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9 — By the Aca- 

 demy. 



Astronomische Nachrichten. Nos. 380 to 386. — By Professor 

 Schumacher. 



Premier Memoire sur les Kaolins ou Argiles a Porcelaine, sur la 

 Nature, le Gisement, I'origine et I'emploi de cette sorte d'- 

 Argile. Par M. Alexandre Brongniart, Professeur de Mi- 

 neralogie au Museum d'Histoire Naturelle By the Author. 



Memoires de I'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres 

 de Bruxelles. Tome xii. — By the Academy. 



Bulletins de I'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de 

 Bruxelles. Tome vi By the Academy. 



Annuaire de I'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de 

 Bruxelles. Sixieme Annee. 1840. — By the Academy. 



Annuaire de I'Observatoire de Bruxelles, pour I'an 1840; par le 

 Directeur A. Quetelet By the Author. 



De la Liberie Physique et Morale ; par L. A. Gruyer.-»-5y the 

 Author. 



