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were produced both before and after the diabase intrusions, and in 

 one case the movement appears to have been in one direction before 

 the intrusions, and in the opposite direction afterwards. 



3. " The Kildare Inlier." By S. H. Reynolds, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., 

 and C. I. Gardiner, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



The area described in this paper is occupied by four prominent 

 hills composed of Lower Palaeozoic rocks rising as an inlier from 

 beneath Carboniferous beds. The authors give the following suc- 

 cession of rocks in descending order : — 



6. Green and grey micaceous grits and shales of Dunmurry. 



5. Red and black shales. 



Gap : no exposure seen. 



4. Limestones of the Chair of Kildare. 



3. Contemporaneous igneous rocks. 



2. Fossiliferous ash of Grange Hill House. 



1. Green gritty shales (unf ossilif erous) . 



Nos. 5 and 6 are referred with some doubt to the Llandovery 

 Series, and perhaps also to higher series. The gap may conceal the 

 uppermost beds of the Bala succession. The limestones of the 

 Chair of Kildare are separated by the authors into four subdivisions 

 of the same general age, and Agnostus trinodus, lUcenns Bowmanni, 

 Bemopleurides longicostatus, and Cyphoniscus seriulis range through- 

 out. The contemporaneous igneous rocks of Grange Hill and of the 

 Hill of Allen are shown by the fossils found in the pyroclastic rocks 

 to be of Middle Bala age. The lavas consist of basalts and andesites, 

 which the authors separate into four groups distinguished by their 

 lithological characters. Petrographical details of these various rocks 

 are given in the second part of the paper. The age of the lowest beds 

 which have not yielded any fossils is doubtful. 



IL— June 10th. 1896.— Dr. Henry Hicks, F.E.S., President, in 

 the Chair. The following communications were read : — 



1. " On Foliated Granites and their Eelations to the Crystalline 

 Schists in Eastern Sutherland." By J. Home, Esq., F.R.S.E., 

 F.G.S., and E. Greenly, Esq., F.G.S. (Communicated by permission 

 of the Director-General of H.M. Geological Survey.) 



The crystalline schists of Eastern Sutherland are traversed by 

 great numbers of granitic intrusions, chiefly in the form of lenticular 

 sills. These generally lie parallel to the foliation-planes of the 

 schists, but transgressive junctions are also frequent. Thin seams 

 of granite also occur in such abundance as to constitute with the 

 schists a banded gneissic series ; but these seams can often be seen 

 to transgress the schistose folia, and even often to proceed from 

 large masses of granite. The granites contain numerous inclusions 

 of the schists which they traverse, such inclusions retaining, usually, 

 the dip and strike of the surrounding rocks. 



There are no chilled edges ; and, moreover, the component crystals 

 of schist and granite mutually interlock along the lines of junction. 



The authors give an account of the foliation of the granite. In 



