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March 22nd. — On the Ancient State of the North American Con- 

 tinent; by Thomas Roy, Esq. Civil Engineer, Toronto, UiDper 

 Canada, and communicated by Charles Lyell, Esq. F.G.S. 



March 8th. — On the Geology of the Neighbourhood of Smyrna; by 

 Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq. F.G.S. 



A Letter to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. F.G.S. ; by Ro- 

 bert Were Fox, Esq., On the process by which Mineral Veins 

 have been filled. 



Extracts from two Letters, On the Earthquake in 



Syria, in January 1837, addressed by Mr. Moore, his Majesty's Con- 

 sul General at Beyrout, to Viscount Palmerston, and communicated 

 by J. Backhouse, Esq., and the Hon. W. T. H. Fox Strangways, 

 Under Secretaries of State. 



April 19th.— A Description of the Cranium of the Toxodon Platen- 

 sis, a gigantic extinct mammiferous species, referrible by its den- 

 tition to the Rodentia, but with affinities to the Pachydermata and 

 theHerbivorousCetacea; by Richard Owen, Esq. F.G.S., Hunterian 

 Professor of Anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons. 



May 3rd. — A Sketch of the Deposits containing Extinct Mammalia 

 in the neighbourhood of the Plata ; by Charles Darwin, Esq. F.G.S. 



Extract of a Letter dated Saharumpore, 18th Nov. 



1836, from Capt. Cautley, F.G.S. to Dr. Royle, F.G.S., permitting 

 the announcement of a fact which had long been communicated 

 to the latter, of the finding of the remains of a quadrumanous ani- 

 mal in the Sewaliks or Sub-Himalayan Range of Mountains. 



-On some recent elevations on the Coast of Banffshire, 



and on a deposit of clay formerly considered to be lias ; by Joseph 

 Prestwich, Jun. Esq. F.G.S. 



An Account of a Tertiary Deposit near Lixouri, in 



the Island of Cephalonia ; by William John Hamilton, Esq. F.G.S., 

 and Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq. F.G.S. 



May 17th. — A Description of the Geological Character of the Coast 

 of Normandy ; by Samuel Peace Pratt, Esq. F.G.S. 



., Extracts from a Letter addressed by Sir John F. W. 



Herschel, F.G.S. to Charles Lyell, Esq. F.G.S., and dated Feld- 

 hausen. Cape of Good Hope, 20th of Februaiy, 1836, On secular 

 variations of the isothermal surfaces of the earth's crust. 



Extract from a Letter from Sir JohnF. W. Herschel 



to Roderick Impey Murchison, Esq. V.P.G.S. in explanation of 

 the letter addressed to Mr. Lyell, dated Feldhausen, 1 5th of No- 

 vember, 1836. 



An Account of a Well at Beaumont Green, in the 



County of Hertford, fifteen miles from London, and about a mile 



to the west of the road to Ware ; by James Mitchell, LL.D.F.G.S. 

 May 31st. — On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the 



Pacific and Indian Oceans,- as deduced from the study of Coral 



Formations ; by Charles Darwin, Esq. F.G.S. 

 . A Letter to Charles Lyell, Esq. F.G.S., On some 



changes of level which have taken place, during the historical 



