Mr. Ferguson on a Marine Deposit containing Shells. 147 



found in good order. Tbe advantage of having a person stationed in the 

 hall to give out and receive books during the day, appears to have given 

 general satisfaction, as is evinced by the increase in the number of books 

 borrowed by members. The total number of volumes in tbe Library on 

 the 1st of November was 1663. 



The Society then proceeded to the Forty-ninth annual election of 

 Office-bearers, having previously appointed Mr. James George Morison 

 and Mr. Charles Watson as scrutineers of votes. 



The scrutineers reported the following gentlemen to have been elected 

 Office-bearers of the Society for the year 1850-51, viz. : — 



^resilient. 



Thomas Thomson, M.D. 



Vice-President,.. Walter Crum. Librarian,... R. D. Thomson, M.D. 



Treasurer, Andrew Liddell. 



Ifot'nt ,Sccr£tavt'c0, 

 Alexander Hasiie, M.P. | William Keddie. 



Councillors. 



James Brtce. 

 William Ferguson. 

 Wm. Gourlie. 

 Alexander Harvey. 



A. Mitchell, M.D. | Prof. Wm. Thomson. 

 William Murray. John Wilson. 



J. Stenhouse, LL.D. Walker Arnott.LL.D. 

 Allen Thomson, M.D. | A. K. Young, M.D. 



The following paper was read : — 



XVIII. — Notice of a Marine Deposit containing Shells, lately discovered 

 in SauchieJmll-Street. By William Ferguson, Esq. 



The fact which I have this evening to bring before the Society, is 

 another proof added to the many already recorded of the existence of 

 the sea, at former levels, higher than those it now occupies. Mr. Smith of 

 Jordanhill has already noted many of the Clydesdale series of these proofs, 

 in connection with their organic remains ; and Mr. Robert Chambers, iu 

 his interesting book, entitled "Ancient Sea Margins," has described 

 topographically, what he considers a series of ancient sea beaches in this 

 neighbourhood, and connected them with others existing at similar levels, 

 not only throughout this country, but also on the continent and abroad. 

 The most marked of these are the Low Green and King's Park, the level 

 of London-Street, the Trongate, and Argyle-Street, the level on which 

 Elmbank Crescent is built, and that occupied by the College. He also 

 mentions another wliich he traces around Garnethill, and it is more 

 especially to what may probably be a part of this one, I now wish to call 

 your attention. I premise, however, that I do not conceive Mr. Chambers 

 concluded the ancient beach he refers to, occupied the higher level of 

 Sauchiohall-Street; I rather understand him to confine it to the lower 

 portion of Sauchiehall Road, where Albany Place and the Rows westward 

 are built. 



The present deposit was cut into in the line of Sauchiehall-Strect, 25 



