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volcanic rocks, which abound near the locality where the elevation 

 is greatest. 



The tertiary formations between the Sierra Nevada and the 

 Sierra Morena, are divided into three districts, called by the 

 author after the names of the principal towns situated in them, viz., 

 Alhama, Antequera, and Alcala la Real. The principal strata are 

 composed of calcareous sandstone and friable limestone, containing 

 numerous fragments of corals and shells. The fossils are stated to 

 differ from those found in the deposits along the shore of the Medi- 

 terranean, and to be characteristic of the middle or Miocene period 

 of Mr. Lyell. The strata are described as occupying very different 

 levels, varying from 1000 to 1500 feet above the sea, and as being 

 occasionally inclined at considerable angles. 



Besides these three principal deposits, several others of minor 

 extent and situated in the province of Sevilla are noticed ; and in 

 concluding his paper, the author alludes to the proofs afforded by 

 these widely scattered remnants of tertiary formations, of the great 

 extent of an ancient sea in this southern portion of the Peninsula, 

 and of the violent manner in which the deposits have been acted 

 upon by igneous and aqueous agents. 



June \ c i. — Stephen Woolryche, Esq., Inspector General of Hos- 

 pitals, Heath Farm, Cashiobury, Hertfordshire ; Rev. Edward De- 

 nison, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford ; Philip Pusey, Esq., of 

 Pusey, near Faringdon; Richard Westmacott, jun.,Esq., of Wilton 

 Place ; and Abel Lewis Gower, Esq., of Finsbury Square, were 

 elected Fellows of this Society. 



A paper entitled " A Notice on some Specimens from the Coal 

 Shale of Kulkeagh, and the subjacent Limestone in the County of 

 Fermanagh," by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., F.G.S., 

 was first read. 



After alluding, in terms of commendation, to Mr. Griffith's account 

 of the Connaught coal-field, the author states that his principal ob- 

 ject is to describe the organic remains which he obtained, in con- 

 junction with Lord Cole, from the beds of shale forming part of the 

 lowest division of the coal series. This shale deposit is stated to be 

 600 feet thick; to be covered by 70 feet of sandstone, and to be 

 separated, in the northern division of the district, from the subjacent 

 or mountain limestone by another system of sandstone strata about 

 40 feet thick. It is described as being composed principally of fre- 

 quent alternations of beds of shale, more or less indurated, and of 

 clay-ironstone. In the upper part of the series, several beds of black 

 argillaceous limestone and a thin stratum of micaceous sandstone 

 are stated to occur, and in the lower a bed of finely grained ferru- 

 ginous sandstone. The shale is said to differ considerably in aspect, 

 colour and structure at the superior and inferior portions of the 

 deposit, but that the distinctive characters pass into each other by 

 insensible gradations. The whole of the beds are stated to be re- 

 plete with organic remains, entirely different from those found in the 

 subjacent limestone. In the upper strata the prevailing fossils enu- 

 merated in the Memoir, are Ammonites and Orthocerata, associated, 



