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Mr. A. Brady on the Elephant Remains at llford 100 



Sir D. Brewster on a Horseshoe Nail found in the Red Sandstone of Kingoodie 101 



Dr. G. Buist on the Geology of Lower Egypt 101 



Mr. John Cleghorn on the Submerged Forests of Caithness 101 



Mr. J. W. Dawson's Letter to Sir Charles Lyell on the occurrence of a Land 

 Shell and Reptiles in the South Joggins Coal-field, Nova Scotia , 102 



Professor Daubeny on certain Volcanic Rocks in Italy which appear to have 

 been subjected to Metamorphic Action 102 



Rev. J. Dingle on the Constitution of the Earth 102 



Mr. R. Garner and W. Molyneux on the Coal Strata of North Staffordshire, 

 with reference, particularly, to their Organic Remains 103 



Mr. A. Geikie on the Chronology of the Trap Rocks of Scotland 106 



Dr. George D. Gibb on Canadian Caverns 106 



Mr. William Sydney Gibson on some Basaltic Formations in Northumber- 

 land 108 



Professor Harkness on Sections along the Southern Flanks of the Grampians 109 



c on the Yellow Sandstones of Elgin and Lossiemouth 109 



Mr. Henry C. Hodge on the Origin of the Ossiferous Caverns at Oreston.... 110 



Mr. T. F. Jamieson on the Connexion of the Granite with the Stratified Rocks 

 in Aberdeenshire 114 



on the Drift Beds and Boulders of the North of Scotland... 114 



Mr. E. R. J. Knowles on some Curious Results in the Water Supply afforded 

 by a Spring at Ashey Down, in the Ryde Water-works 114 



Dr. Macgowan on certain Phenomena attendant on Volcanic Eruptions and 

 Earthquakes in China and Japan 115 



Mr. John Miller on the Age of the Reptilian Sandstones of Morayshire 115 



on some New Fossils from the Old Red Sandstone of 



Caithness 115 



Mr. Hugh Mitchell on New Fossils from the Lower Old Red Sandstone ... 116 



Professor James Nicol on the Geological Structure of the Vicinity of Aberdeen 

 and the North-east of Scotland 116 



on the Relations of the Gneiss, Red Sandstone, and 



Quartzite in the North-west Highlands 119 



Mr. D. Page on some new Boreal forms — the nearly perfect skeletons of Surf 

 and Eider Ducks, Oiderna and Somateria — accompanying the remains of Seals, 

 from the Pleistocene Brick-clays of Stratheden, Fifeshire ; nine miles inland, 

 and 150 feet above medium tide-level 120 



on the Structure, Affinities, and Geological Range of the Crusta- 

 cean Family Eurypteridre, as embracing the genera Eurypterus, Pterygotus, 

 Stylonurus, Eidothca, and other doubtful Eurypterites from the Silurian, De- 

 vonian, and Carboniferous strata of Britain, Russia, and North America 120 



Mr. C. W. Peach on Fossil Fish, new to the Old Red Sandstone of Caithness... 120 



Mr. W. Pengelly on the Ossiferous Fissures at Oreston near Plymouth 121 



Mr. John Price on Slickensides 123 



M. A. Radiguei, on a Fragment of Pottery found in Superficial Deposits in 

 Paris 124 



Mr. H. C. Sorby on the Origin of " Cone-in-Cone " 124 



Rev. W. S. Symonds on some Fishes and Tracks from the Passage Rocks and 

 from the Old Red Sandstone of Herefordshire 124 



