X CONTENTS. 



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 Mr. William Hellier Baily on a new Species of Labj-rinthodont Amphiba 

 from the Coal at Jarrow Colliery, near Castlecouier, co. Kilkenny 62 



Rev. James Buodie on the Action of Ice in what is usually termed the Gla- 

 cial Period 63 



Rev. P. B. Brodie on the further Extension of the Ehsetic or Penarth Beds 

 in Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Cumber- 

 land ; and on the Occurrence of some supposed Remains of a new Labyrin- 

 thodon and a new Radiate therein 64 



Dr. W. B. Carpenter on the Origin of the Red Clay found by the ' Chal- 

 lenger ' at great Depths in the Ocean 64 



on the Condition of the Sea-bottom of the North 



Pacific, as shown by the Soundings recently taken by the U.S. Steamship 



' Tuscarora ' 64 



Messrs. Handel Cossham, Edward Wethered, and Walter Saise on the 

 Northern End of the Bristol Coalfield 64 



Dr. Clement Le Neve Foster on the Deposit of Tin-ore at Park of Mines, 

 St. Columb, Cornwall 64 



Mr. Edward Fry on Moraines as the retaining Walls of Lakes 64 



Mr. A. H. Green on the Variations in Character and Thickness of the 

 Millstone-grit of North Derbyshire and the adjoining parts of Yorkshire, 

 and on the probable manner in which these Changes have been produced. . 65 



Mr. J. G. Grenfell on Carboniferous Encrinites from Clifton and from 

 Lancashire 65 



Mr. John Gunn on the Influx and Stranding of Icebergs during the so-called 

 Glacial Epoch, and a suggestion of the possible cause of the Oscillation of 

 the Level of Land and Water to which that Influx may be due 66 



IMr. William J. Harrison on the Occurrence of Rhaetic Beds near Leicester 66 



Professor E. Hebert on the Undulations of the Chalk in the North of France, 

 and their probable existence under the Straits of Dover 67 



Dr. J. Hector on the Geology of New Zealand 69 



Mr. Henry Hicks on some Areas where the Cambrian and Silurian Rocks 

 occur as Conformable Series 69 



Mr. John Hopkinson on the Distribution of the Graptolites in the Lower 

 Ludlow Rocks near Ludlow 69 



Prof T. M-^K. Hughes on the Classification of the Sedimentary Rocks 70 



Professor Edward Hull on the Discovery, by Count Abbot Castracane, of 

 Diatomacese in Coal from Lancashire and other places 74 



Mr. G. Henry Kinahan on the Drifting- power of Tidal Currents and that of 

 Wind- waves .' 74 



Mr. G. A. Lebour on the Limits of the Yoredale Series in the North of 

 England , 74 



Mr.'D. Mackintosh on the Geological meaning of the term " River-basin," 

 and the desirability of substituting " Drainage-area " 75 



on the Origin of two polished and sharpened Stones from 



Cefn Cave 75 



" on existing Ice-action in Greenland and tho Alps, com- 

 pared with former Ice-action in the N.W. of England and Wales 76 



Mr. J. M-^Murtrib on certain Isolated Areas of Mountain-Limestone at Luck- 

 iugton and Vobster 7(i- 



