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7. Analyses of the Water and Gas from Blowing Wells near Northallerton. 



By T. FAiRLET,r.R.S.E 601 



8. On Experiments with Manures on the Barley Crop of 1881. By W. 

 IvisoN Macadam 602 



9. On the Hydration of Salts and Oxides. By C. F. Cross, B.Sc 602 



10. On Cellulose and Coal. By C. F. Cross, B.Sc, and E. J.Bevan 603 



11. On the New Element, Actinium. By Dr. T. L. Phipson, F.C.S 603 



12. On Bowkett's Thermograph. Bv Wm. Lant Carpenter, B.A., B.Sc, 

 F.C.S ' 



604 



Section C— GEOLOGY. 



THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 



Address hy Andrew Crombie Ramsay, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., President 



of the Section 605 



1. On the Laurentian Beds of Donegal and of other parts of Ireland. By 



Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Geological 



Survey of Ireland 609 



2. On the Laurentian Rocks in Ireland. By G. H. Kinahan, M.R.I.A., &c. 609 



3. Life in Irish and other Laurentian Rocks. By C. Moore, F.G.S 610 



4 On the occurrence of Granite in situ, about 20 miles S.W. of the Eddy- 

 stone. By A. R. Hunt, M.A., F.G.S 610 



6. Some Ohservations on the Causes of Volcanic Action. By Professor 

 J.Prestwich, M.A., F.R.S 610 



■6. The Comiection between the Intrusion of "Volcanic Rock and Volcanic 

 Eruptions. By Professor Sollas, M.A., F.R.S.E 613 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 



1 On the Influence of Barometric Pressure on the Discharge of Water from 

 Springs. By Baldwin Latham, M. Inst. C.E., F.G.S., F.M.S 614 



:2 Glacial Sections at York, and their relation to the later deposits. By 

 J. Edmund Clark, B.A., B.Sc, F.G.S 614 



3. On the Bridlington and Dimlington Glacial Shell-beds. By G. W. 

 Lamplugh 616 



4. On Sections of the Drift obtained from the new Drainage Works of Drif- 

 field. By J.R.Mortimer 617 



5. On the Subsidences above the Permian Limestone between Hartlepool 

 and Ripon. By A. G. Cameron, Geological Survey of England and 

 Wales • 617 



G The Glacial Deposits of West Cumberland, By J. D. Kendall, C.E., 

 F.G.S 617 



7 On Simosaurus pusillus (Fraas), a step in the Evolution of the Plesio- 

 sauria. By Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.L.S 618 



:8. On a Restoration of the Skeleton of Archfeopterj'x, with some remarlis on 

 the differences between the Berlin and London specimens. By Professor 

 H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.L.S 616 



