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I. Original Articles. Taffe 



Lamarck and Playfair : A Geological 

 Retrospect of the Year 1802. By 

 Sir Archibald Geikie, Sc.D., 

 D.C.L., LL.D., Sec.R.S., President 

 of the Geological Society 145 



Notes on the Corries of the Comeragh 

 Mountains, Co. AVaterford. By 

 F. R. CowPER Reed, M.A., F.G.S. 

 ("With Text - Illustrations and 

 Plate XIII.) 154 



The Geological History of SouthAfrica. 

 By Dr.^ F. H. Hatch, F.G.S. , 

 M.I.C.E., President of the Geo- 

 logical Society of South Africa. 

 (Concluded.) 161 



Superheated Water. By A. R. Hunt, 

 M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S 169 



The Pendleton Earth - shake of 

 November 25th, 1905. By Charles 

 Davison, Sc.D., F.G.S. (With 2 

 Text-Illustrations ) 



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Original Articles (continued). Pa^e 



A Cordierite-bearing Lava from the 

 Lake District. By Alfred Harker, 

 M.A., F.R.S 176 



II. Reports and Proceedings. 



Geological Society of London — 

 Annual General Meeting, Feb. 16th, 



1906 178 



Evening Meeting, Feb. 21st, 1906 186 



III. Correspondence. 

 Professor A. von Koenen 188 



IV. Obituary. 



John George Goodchild, F.G.S 189 



Thomas Barron, A.R.C.S., F.G.S.... 190 



Wmiam Cunnington, F.G.S 191 



V. Miscellaneous. 

 Appointment of Prof W. W. Watts, 

 M.A., F.R.S., Sec.G.S., to the 

 Chair of Geology in Royal College 

 of Science 192 



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