Viii CONTENTS. 



Pago 



Mr. William Carruthers on tlie Sporangia of Ferns from the Coal-mea- 

 sures ' l 



's Remarks on the Fossils from the Railway Sec- 

 tion at Huyton ^1 



Note on an Antholithes discovered by C. W. 



Peach 72 



The Rev. H. W. Crosskey on the Glacial Phenomena in the Central District 

 of England 72 



The Rev. J. Gunn on the Formation of Boulder-clays and Alternations of 

 Level of Land and Water 72 



Mr. Hugh F. Hall on the Glacial and Postglacial Deposits in the Neigh- 

 bourhood of Llandudno 72 



Professor Harkness and Mr. H. A. Nicholson on the Green Slates and Por- 

 phyries of the Lake-district 74 



Mr. F. W. Haemer on some Thermal Springs in the Fens of Cambridgeshire 74 



Professor Edward Hitll on the Extension of the Coal-fields beneath the 

 newer Formations of England, and the successive Stratigraphical Changes 

 to which the Carboniferous Rocks have been subjected 74 



Mr. Charles Jecks on the Red and Coralline Crags 75 



Mr. J. GwYN Jefpreys's Remarks on New Tertiary Fossils in Sicily and Ca- 

 labria 76 



Mr. John W. Judd on the Age of the Wealden 77 



Professors King and Rowney on some points in the Geology of Strath, Isle 

 of Skye 78 



Mr. Charles Lapworth on the Discovery of Upper Silurian Rocks in 

 Roxburgh and Dumfriesshire 78 



Mr. G. A. Lebour and AV. Mundle on the Tertiary Coal-field of Southern 

 ChUe 78 



Mr. J. L. Lobley on the Stratigraphical Distribution of the British Fossil 

 Gasteropoda '8 



Professor Constantine Mal,\ise (of Gembloux) on the Silurian Formations 

 of the Centre of Belgium 78 



Mr. L. C. Mi all on the Formation of Swallow-holes or Pits with Vertical 

 Sides in Mountain Limestone 79 



Mr. George Maw on the Evidences of Recent Changes of Level on the 

 Mediterranean Coast '9 



]\Ir. W. Stephen Mitchell's Remarks on the Denudation of the Oolites 

 of the Bath District 80 



Mr. Thomas Moffat on Geological Systems and Endemic Diseases 80 



Mr. G. H. Morton on the Glaciated Condition of the Surface of the Triassic 



Sandstone around Liverpool 81 



on the Mountain Limestone of Flintshire and part of 



Denbighshire 82 



Mr. R. A. Peacock on some Future and Past Changes of the Earth's Climate 82 



Mr. W. Pengelly on the IModern and Ancient Beaches of Portland 84 



Mr. T. A. Readwin's Notes on a Merionethshire Gold Quartz Crystal, and 

 some Stream Gold recently found in the River Mawddach 84 



]Mi'. Charles Ricketts on Sections of Strata between Huyton and St. Helen's 85 

 Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney on the recent Formation of Gravel-beds resembling 

 Middle Drift 86 



