48 Geological Society. 



Bauer; — the mathematical investigations of the attraction of sphe- 

 roids by Ivory; — the experiments on the pendulum of Kater;— the 

 researches in analytical chemistry of Hatchett; — the principal results 

 of the chemical labours of Faraday down to the Bakerian Lecture on 

 the Manufacture of Glass for Optical Purposes; — and many others 

 of commensurate value ; besides in single papers, the masterly exa- 

 mination of meteorites, by Howard and Bournon ; — the experi- 

 ments and observations on the crystallization of slowly-cooling fused 

 earthy matter, of the lamented Gregory Watt; (both the papers last 

 mentioned, it may be remarked, being the foundation of nearly all 

 that has hitherto been made known on their respective subjects;) — 

 the identification of the celebrated solar eclipses mentioned by He- 

 rodotus and Diodorus Siculus, of Baily ; — and the account of the 

 Kirkdale cave of Hyaenas, of Buckland : — together with many more 

 of a high degree of interesc and importance. 



Of all these contributions to the knowledge of nature, then, amount- 

 ing to upwards of seven hundred and fifty in number, we are presented 

 in these volumes with the condensed results. The proof sheets, as 

 we gather from the Report of the Council already cited, have been 

 read over by Mr. Lubbock and Mr. Children, and no alterations 

 have been made except for the correction of errors obviously arising 

 from inaccurate transcription. They are printed uniformly with 

 the " Proceedings of the Royal Society" now in course of publi- 

 cation, which will form a regular continuation of the Abstracts, down 

 to the date of each number of the former. — To add any further re- 

 commendation of these volumes to the public is impossible. 



XV. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



1833. fT^HE Society assembled this evening for the Session. 

 Nov. 6. — JL A paper was first read " On a Band of Transition 

 Limestone, and on Granite Veins, appearing in the Greywacke Slate 

 of Westmoreland, near Shap Wells and Wastdale Head," by the 

 Rev. Adam Sedgwick, V.P.G.S., and Woodwardian Professor in the 

 University of Cambridge. 



The author began by stating, that his communication was a short 

 supplement to a former paper, in whch he described the range of a 

 band of transition limestone from the south-western extremity of 

 Cumberland through a portion of Lancashire and Westmoreland. 

 He there had stated that this limestone was cut off by the Shap 

 granite, and did not reappear on the north side of it. During the 

 past summer, however, he ascertained, by the help of some new 

 artificial sections laid bare near Shap Wells, that the band of lime- 

 stone does reappear, nearly in its original line of direction ; and that 

 it passes, along with the slate rocks, unconformably under the ter- 

 race of old red sandstone and mountain limestone. The pheno- 

 mena are noticed in detail : and a mineral spring is described as 

 rising among these beds, in near connexion with a protruded mass 

 of porphyry. 



