PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP LONDON. 



1826—1827. No. 1. 



The Council of the Geological Society, being desirous of commu- 

 nicating to the Fellows as promptly as may be, an account of the 

 Proceedings of the Society, during the intervals which must necessa- 

 rily elapse between the appearance of the several Parts of the Trans- 

 actions, has made arrangements for distributing, to the Fellows who 

 reside in London and its vicinity, the abstracts of the papers read at 

 the ordinary meetings, with such official documents as it may be 

 thought expedient to publish ; — which if preserved, will furnish a 

 connected history of the Society .^-Such of the non-resident Fel- 

 lows as may be desirous of obtaining copies, may have them sent 

 according to any address in town, notified by letter to the Secre- 

 traies. 



The present Number contains an account of the Proceedings of 

 the Geological Society, from the commencement of the Session in 

 November last, to the annual meeting on the 16th of February, in- 

 clusive ; and the Numbers will in future be continued, from time to 

 time, according to the space occupied by the abstracts of the papers. 



The Council has the satisfaction to inform the Fellows, that the 

 Second Part of Volume II. of the second series of the Transactions, 

 which has been for some time in the press, will be ready for pub- 

 lication in a few weeks. 



9th April 1827. 



PROCEEDINGS DURING THE SESSION OF 1826 — 1827- 



Nov. 3. — Colonel Charles Silvertop, of Minster Acres, Northum- 

 berland, was elected a Fellow of this Society. 



A paper was read entitled " Additional remarks on the nature 

 and character of the limestone and slate principally composing the 

 rocks and hills round Plymouth," by the Rev. Richard Hennah, 

 F.G.S. 



The author refers to a former paper on this subject, in which 

 he confined his field of observation to the narrow tract between the 

 Plym and the Tamar; — he now extends its limits to Mount Batten 

 and Statten Heights, in a southerly direction. In this tract which 



