Reports and Proceedings. at 
Mr. George C. Haswell, while he approved of the careful style of 
Mr. Smyth, thought that he had attempted to account for the gain 
of land in a wrong way, and compared the effects on the coast-line 
to the east and west of Leith Pier to show that, if we took our 
arguments, on the principle of Mr. Smyth, from the effect of the sea 
to the west, we would say that the land was sinking there, because 
the sea is encroaching on the land; whereas, if taken from the east 
of the pier, as done by Mr. Smyth, we might conclude that the land 
was rising. He contended that the alterations at present going on 
in the coast-line were entirely due to the ordinary effects of cur- 
rents silting up some parts of the coast-line and wearing away others. 
Mr. David Page, F.G.S., mentioned that these terraces which occur 
on both sides of the Forth also occur at the same elevations in 
Banffshire, Morayshire, and Aberdeenshire, as well as in many 
places in the south and west, and gave it as his opinion that the 
last rise of the land occurred previous to the Human Period. 
Messrs. James Haswell, Brown, and R. Coyne took part in the 
discussion. 
I. Jan. 12. Mr. R. Coyne, A.F.A., in the chair. The Duke of 
Argyll was elected an Honorary Member; Prof. Winchell, of Canada, 
and M. Boucher de Perthes, of Abbeville, were elected Correspond- 
ing Members; and Mr. James Horne, Geol. Soc. Glasgow, and 
Messrs. M. Watson and P. Samuel, Edinburgh, were elected Ordinary 
Members. Mr. Niet Stewart read a paper on ‘ The last Effect of 
the Igneous Forces, followed by denudation, in the neighbourhood 
of Niddry. Mr. T. R. Marswaty read a paper on a Tibia of the 
Extinct Caledonian Ox, found five feet below the surface, in Peat 
overlying Sandstone in Hailes Quarry.—G. C. H. 
Griascow Grotoaicat Socrety.*—L. In his paper read December 
8th, after referring to various mutations on the surface of our globe, 
and the agents by which these are effected, Mr. DouGaty noticed the 
geographical features of the land in and around the city of Glasgow, 
especially of various alluvial haughs, abrupt terraces, rounded de- 
tached elevations, and lengthened indentations running parallel with 
the Clyde, and generally characterized by rolled pebbles and stratified 
sands, the uniform character and position of which point to a time 
when sea-waves swept over the site of the homes and thoroughfares 
of the city, bearing and occasionally submerging the canoes of our 
barbarous ancestors, to some of which we can now refer as proofs of 
the comparatively recent emergence of its site from the sea. He 
showed that the Gryffe Water at Renfrew has shifted a mile-and-a- 
half ; referred to changes in the channel of the Molendinar Burn in 
Glasgow ; and, after explaining that the Low and High Greens are 
two of the most recently emerged platforms, he described the eight 
* We have received a report of Dr. Machattie’s very clear, comprehensive, and 
useful Lecture on Metamorphic Rocks, given as the Monthly Lecture on Noyem- 
ber 24, and regret that we cannot find room for it. 
