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exceed a few hundred acres. Large quantities of stream-tin have 

 beea already obtained. 



21. " Note on the Occurrence of a Labyrinthodont in the Yoredale 

 Eocks of Wensleydale." By L. C. Miall, Esq. Com>municated by 

 Prof. Huxley, F.K.S., F.G-S. 



The author briefly describes a specimen, discovered by Mr. W. 

 Home, of Leyburn, in the Lower Carboniferous Eocks there, com- 

 prising casts of five bones. Two of these are probably tibi^. Owing 

 to their fragmentary nature the others cannot be accurately deter- 

 mined. The author considers that these bones belong to an animal 

 of higher rank than any known fish, and thinks that the Lower 

 Coal-measures of Glasgow, with Loxomma, may be of earlier date 

 than the Yoredale Eocks. 



22. "^Geological Notes on the Eoute traversed by the Yarkund 

 Embassy, from Shahidulla to Yarkund and Kashgar." By Dr. F. 

 Stoliczka, F.G.S. 



The author described the rocks observed by him along the course 

 of the Karakash river and through the Sanju pass as chiefly meta- 

 morphic, and very highly inclined, until near Yam sedimentary 

 rocks rest unconformably on the schists. These are probably 

 Palaaozoic. Later rocks occur near the camp Kiwaz, some re- 

 sembling the rocks of the Naliun group, and underlain by deposits 

 containing Carboniferous fossils. At Sanju coarse grey calcareous 

 sandstones and chloritic marls of Cretaceous age occur. True Loss 

 occurs in some of the valleys. 



23. " The Hfematite Deposits of Whitehaven and Furness." By 

 J. D. Kendall, Esq., F.G.S. 



The deposits of haematite occur in the Silurian and Carboniferous 

 rocks, but chiefly in the latter, and nearly all those worked in the 

 two districts are found in the Mountain-limestone. They occur at 

 all levels in the limestone, and generally near faults ; their dip is 

 the same as that of the beds in which they lie. Their longest axis 

 almost always corresponds with the magnetic meridian. Their 

 internal nature varies at the two localities. The Whitehaven 

 haematite is much more compact than that of Furness. In the 

 latter place it contains fossils from the Carboniferous Limestone. 



The author considers the heematites to have been deposited by 

 water, coming probably from the Coal-measures, containing bi- 

 carbonate of iron. The author believes that they were probably 

 deposited after the Millstone-grit, but before the Permian. 



24. " Notes on the Physical Characters and Mineralogy of New- 

 foundland." By John Milne, Esq., F.G.S. 



In this paper the author described in considerable detail the 

 physical characters of the island of Newfoundland with regard to its 

 surface configuration and coast outline, the traces of ice-action dis- 

 played in it, and its mineral resources. The details of the latter are 

 given under the heads of the various localities visited by the author. 



25. "Notes on the Sinaitic Peninsula and North-western Arabia." 

 By John Milne, Esq., F.G.S. 



