﻿ANNUAL REPORT. 



XL 



Shropshire and N.Wales Natural 



History Society. 

 Silliman. Prof., M.D., For. Mem. 



G.S. 



Societe d'Agriculture, Science, 

 Arts, et Commerce, du Puy. 



Societe Hollandaise des Sciences 

 a, Haarlem. 



Societe Imperiale de Naturalistes 

 de Moscou. 



SocieteLinneenne de Bordeaux. 



SocieteLinneenne deNormandie 



Society of Arts. 



Spencer, J. F., Esq. 



Stacpoole, Rev. A. D., M.A. 



St. Petersburg Imperial Aca- 

 demy. 



Taylor, R., Esq., F.G.S. 

 Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 



Messrs. 

 Tchihatchef, M. P. de. 

 Tennant, Prof., F.G.S. 

 Thurman, M. Jules. 

 Trimmer, Joshua, Esq., F.G.S. 



Wild, J. J., Esq. 



Williams and Norgate, Messrs. 



Wisbaden Natural Hist. Society. 



Zoological Society. 



List of Papers read since the last Anniversary Meeting, 

 February 1 5th, 1850. 



1850. 



Feb. 27th. — On the Strata and the Organic Remains exposed in the 

 Cuttings of the Branch Railway from the Great Western Line 

 near Chippenham, through Trowbridge, to Westbury in Wiltshire, 

 by R. N. Mantell, Esq.; communicated by G. A. Mantell, LL.D., 

 F.G.S. 



On the Dinornis and other Birds, and the Fossils and 



Rock-specimens from New Zealand, by G. A. Mantell, LL.D., 

 F.G.S. 



March 13th. — Report on the discovery of Coal near Erzeroom 

 (forwarded from the Foreign Office, by order of Viscount Pal- 

 merston). 



On the Metamorphic Rocks of Eastern Nova Scotia, 



by J. W. Dawson, Esq. ; communicated by the President. 

 — — On the Structure of the Crystalline Rocks of the 



Andes and their Cleavage Planes, by Evan Hopkins, Esq., F.G.S. 

 March 27th. — On the Vents of Hot Vapour in Tuscany, and their 



Relations to Ancient Lines of Fracture and Eruption, by Sir 



R. I. Murchison, V.P.G.S. 

 April 10th. — On the Discovery, by Professor Lepsius, of Sculptured 



Marks on Rocks in the Nile Valley in Nubia, indicating that 



within the Historical Period the River flowed at a higher Level 



than in Modern Times, by Leonard Horner, Esq., F.G.S. 

 April 24th. — On the Boulder Clay of Wick, by John Cleghorn, 



Esq. ; communicated by the President. 

 On the occurrence of Marine Shells in the Stratified 



beds below the Till, near Airdrie, by James Smith, Esq., of 



Jordan Hill, F.G.S. 

 • On the New Red Sandstone of the Vale of the Nith, 



by Robert Harkness, Esq. ; communicated by the President. 

 May 8th. — On the Geology of Spain, by Don J. Ezquerra del Bayo ; 



communicated by Sir R. I. Murchison, V.P.G.S. 



