6 geologists' association report for 1871. 



Your Committee feel that they but interpret your unanimous 

 wishes, when they tender your thanks to the Council of University 

 College for the courteous continuance of their grant of the Library 

 of the College for the meetings of the Association. 



You will be gi^atified to learn that the Eev. Thomas "Wiltshire, 

 M.A., F.G.S., &c., has intimated his willingness to continue to 

 preside over the Association during the ensuing year. 



It will be apparent. from the foregoing statements that the Geo- 

 logists' Association has opening before it an increased sphere of 

 usefulness, but your Committee desire the co-operation of each one 

 of your body in their endeavours to make our Association more and 

 more influential for the advancement and diffusion of Geological 

 Knowledge. 



The following Papers were read during the year : — 



On the Geology of the Neighbourliood of Portsmouth and Ryde, by Caleb 



Evans, Esq., F.G.S. 

 On the Range in Time of the Foraminifera, by Professor T. Eupert Jones, F.G.S. 

 On the English Crags, considered in reference to the Stratigraphical Divisions 



indicated by their Invertebrate Fauna, by Alfred and Robert Bell. 

 On South African Diamonds, by Professor Tennant, F.G.S. , &c. 

 On the Fauna of the Carboniferous Epoch, by Henry Woodward, Esq.,F.G.S. 

 On Flint, by M. Hawkins Johnson, Esq., F.G.S. 



On the Upper Limits of the Devonian System, by S. E. Pattison, Esq., F.G.S. 

 On an Exposure of the London Clay, at Child's Hill, Hampstead, by Caleb 



Evans, Esq., F.G.S. 

 On the Old Land Surfaces of the Globe, by Professor Morris, F.G.S. 

 On a Recent Exposure of the Glacial Drift at Finchley, by Henry Walker, Esq. 

 On the Glacial Drifts of North London, by Henry Walker, Esq. 

 On the Overlapping of several Geological Formations on the North Wales 



Border, by D. C. Davies, Esq. 

 Report of the Proceedings of the Geological Section of the British Association 



at Edinburgh, 1871, by John Hopkinson, Esq., F.G.S., F.R.M.S. 



The following is a list of the Excursions of the past year : — 



Directors. 

 rProf. Morris, F.G.S. 

 Visit to the British Museum, 18th March. < Henry Woodward, Esq., F.G.S., &c. 



(-William Carruthers, Esq., P.G.S., &c. 

 ^Prof. Morris, F.G.S. 

 Visit to the Museum of Practical Geology, S jioii,ert Etheridge, Esq., F.G.S., &c. 

 25th March. ( p^^^f _ Tennant, F.G.S., &c. 



, The President. 

 Excursion to Cambridge andUpware, and I ^^^ -^^^_ rj,_ q. gonney M.A., F.G.S. 

 Visit to Woodwardian Museum, 10th j ^^^^ Morris F.G.S. 

 and nth April. ^Rawj Seeley, Esq., F.G.S. 



