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exception (which could not be called a true metamorphic gneiss as 

 the felspar was provided ready made), I do not think that any beds 

 belonging to the slaty series of the Himalaya have been converted 

 into gneiss ; whether they could be is a matter to be decided by 

 chemical analysis. 



I. — British Association for the Advancement op Science. 

 Fifty-seventh Meeting, Manchester, 1887. 



Section C — Geology. 

 Fresident: Henry Woodwabd, LL.D., F.R. S., F.O.S. 



Titles of Papers Eead September 1st to 7th, 1887. 



1. Address by the President. 



2. Prof. W. Boyd Daiokins. — On the Geography of the British Isles 



in the Carboniferous Period. 



3. Prof. W. Boyd DaivMns. — On the Structure of the Millstone 



Grit of the Pennine Chain. 



4. Mark Stirrup. — Foreign Boulders from Coal Seams. 



5. Dr. G. J. Hinde. — On the Organic Origin of the Chert in the 



Carboniferous Limestone Series of Ireland, and its similarity to 

 that in the corresponding strata of North Wales and Yorkshire. 



6. Robert Laio and James ITorsfall. — On the Discovery of Carboni- 



ferous Fossils in a Conglomerate at Moughton Fell, near Settle, 

 Yorkshire. 



7. Dr. H. Crosslcey. — Report on the Erratic Blocks of England, 



Wales, and Ireland. 



8. Prof. E. Hull. — Note on a few of the many remarkable Boulder 



Stones to be found along the Eastern Margin of the Wicklow 

 Mountains. 



9. Prof. H. Carvill Lewis. — The Terminal Moraines of the great 



Glaciers of England. 



10. Prof. H. C. Lewis. — On some important Extra-Morainic Lakes in 



England, North America, and elsewhere, during the period of 

 Maximum Glaciation ; and on the Origin of Extra-Morainic 

 Boulder Clay. 



11. Hugh Miller. — A comparative study of the Boulder Clay in the 



Glaciated Districts of Europe — Britain, Norway, Switzerland, 

 Low Germany, and the Pyrenees. 



12. Dr. H. Hides. — Report on the Cae Gwyn Cave, North Wales. 



13. J. W. Davis. — On an Ancient Sea-Beach near Bridlington, con- 



taining Mammalian Remains. 



14. Dr. H. Woodward. — On the Discovery of a Larval Cockroach, 



Etoblattina Peacldi (H. Woodw.), from the Coal-Measures of 

 Kilmaurs, Ayrshire. 

 lo. Dr. H. Woodward. — On a new form of Eiirypterus from the 

 Lower Carboniferous Shales, Glencartholme, Eskdale, Scotland. 



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