THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 9, 1864. 



Frederick Braby, Esq., 28 Osnaburgh Street, Kegent's Park, was 

 elected a Fellow. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. A Notice of the Geology of Jamaica, especially with reference to 

 the District of Clarendon ; with Descriptions of the Cretaceous, 

 Eocene, and Miocene Corals of the Islands. By P. Martin 

 Duncan, M.B. (Lond.), Sec. G.S., and G. P. Wall, Esq., F.G.S., 

 late of the Geological Survey of the West Indies. 



[Plates I. & II.] 



Contents. 



1. Introduction. 



2. Notice of the Relations of the Jamaican Strata. 



3. List of the Species of Corals. 



4. Description of the Species. 



5. General remarks on the aiEnities of the Species, and on the Correlation of 

 the Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene strata of Jamaica with those of Europe. 



1. Introduction. 



The Corals from Jamaica hitherto described came from the incKned 

 white limestones, and from the shales and sands subordinate to them ; 

 their Mid-tertiary age has been demonstrated, together with that of 

 the Shells and Foraminifera ; and the general succession of the Ter- 

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