CONTENTS. IX 



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Mr. John Buchanan on Ancient Canoes found at Glasgow 80 



Mr. J. A. Campbell on the Auriferous Quartz Formation of Australia 81 



Mr. Robert Chambers on Denudation and other effects usually attributed to 



Water 81 



Mr. W. Darling on the Probable Maximum Depth of the Ocean 81 



Mr. J. W. Dawson on the Fossils of the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia 81 



Mr. David Forbes on the Relations of the Silurian and Metamorphic Rocks 



of the South of Norway 82 



Professors Harkness and Blyth's Remarks on the Cleavage of the Devonians 



of the South of Ireland 82 



Professor Harkness on the Lowest Sedimentary Rocks of Scotland 82 



on the Geology of the Dingle Promontory, Ireland 83 



Mr. Evan Hopkins on the Meridional and Symmetrical Structure of the Globe, 



its Superficial Changes, and the Polarity of all Terrestrial Operations 83 



on the Gold-bearing Districts of the World 83 



Signor Lanza on the Formations of Dalmatia 83 



Mr. C. Maclaren on the Excavation of certain River Channels in Scotland ... 83 



Mr. Hugh Miller on the less-known Fossil Floras of Scotland 83 



Mr. John Miller's Exhibition of Fossil Plants of the Old Red Sandstone of 



Caithness 85 



Sir Roderick I. Murchison on the Relations of the Crystalline Rocks of the 

 North Highlands to the Old Red Sandstone of that Region, and on the recent 



discoveries of Fossils in the former by Mr. Charles Peach 85 



Sir Roderick I. Murchison and Professor James Nicol's New Geological 



Map of Europe exhibited 88 



Professor James Nicol on Striated Rocks and other Evidences of Ice-Action 



observed in the North of Scotland 88 



Mr. D. Page on the Pterygotus and Pterygotus Beds of Great Britain 89 



on the Freshwater Limestone of Dr. Hibbert 91 



on the Subdivisions of the Palseozoic and Metamorphic Rocks of 



Scotland 92 



Professor Phillips's Remarks on certain Trap Dykes in Arran 94 



Mr. H. Poole's Note on a recent Geological Survey of the Region between 



Constantinople and Broussa, in Asia Minor, in search of Coal 94 



Mr. John Price on the Geology of the District of Great and Little Ormes- 



head. North Wales 94 



Mr. A. C. Ramsay on the commencement and progress of the Geological Survey 



in Scotland 95 



Professor H. D. Rogers on some of the Geological Functions of the Winds, 



illustrating the Origin of Salt, &c 95 



on the Geology of the United States 95 



on some Reptilian Footprints from the Carboniferous 



Strata of Pennsylvania 95 



Mr. J. W. Salter's Additions to the Geology of the Arctic Regions 95 



on some Fossils from the Cambrian Rocks of the Longmynd, 



Shropshire ,,,.., 95 



