CONTENTS. IX 



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Dr. Beke on the Island of St. John in the Red Sea (the Ophiodes of Strabo) 50 



Mr. Henby Bbigg, Jan., on the Occurrence of Flint Implements in the Gravel 

 of the Little Ouse Valley at Thetford and elsewhere 50 



The Rev. P. B. Brodie on the Correlation of the Lower Lias at BaiTow-on- 

 Sour, Leicestershire, with the same Strata in Warwick-, Worcester-, and 

 Gloucester-shires, and on the Occurrences of the Remains of Insects at 

 Barrow 51 



Mr. E. Brown on the Drift Deposit on the Weaver Hills 51 



Mr. F. M. Burton on the Occurrence of the Rhretic Beds, near Gainsborough 

 and the surrounding Strata 51 



Dr. C. Le Ne-\T5 Foster on a Curious Lode or Mineral Vein at New Rose- 

 warne Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall 52 



Dr. F. M. Foster on the Discovery of Ancient Trees below the surface of the 

 Land at the Western Dock now under construction at Hull 52 



The Rev. J. Gunn on the Anglo-Belgian Basin of the Forest-bed of Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, and the Union of England with the Continent during the Glacial 

 Period 52 



Mr. Edward Hedley on the Sinking of Annesley Collierj' 53 



Professor Oswald Heer on the Miocene Flora of North Greenland 53 



Professor C. H. Hitchcock on the Geological Distribution of Petroleum in 

 North America 55 



Sir Roderick I. Murchison on the parts of England and Wales in which 

 Coal may and may not be looked for beyond the known Coal-Fields 57 



Mr. Henry Alleyne Nicholson on some Fossils from the Graptolitic Shales 

 of Dumfriesshire 63 



Mr. James Oakes on a Peculiar Denudation of a Coal-Seam in Coates's Park 

 CoUiery Gi 



Mr. Charles W. Peach's Further Observations on, and Additions to, the List 

 of Fossils found in the Boidder-Clay of Caithness, N.B 6-1 



Mr. R. A. Peacock on a Gradual Change of Form and Position of Land on the 

 South End of the Isle of Walney 60 



Mr. W. Pengelly on Raised Beaches GG 



Mr. W. H. Ransom on the Occurrence of Felis Lynx as a British Fossil .... GG 



Mr. Govier Seeley on some Characters of the Brain and Skull in Plesio- 

 saurus GG 



on the Carstone 67 



on the Characters of Dolkhosaurus, a Lizard-like Ser- 



pent of the Chalk G7 



Mr. John E. Taylor on the Relation of the Upper and Lower Crags in Nor- 

 folk 67 



Mr. W. ToPLEY on the Physical Geography of East Yorkshire 67 



Mr. J. F. W-A.LKEB on the Lower Greensand of Bedfordshire 67 



Mr. A. B. Wynne's Notes on the Physical Features of the Land as connected 



with Denudation G9 



