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April 24, 1872. 



David Johnson, Esq., Grosvenor Road, Wrexham ; Edward Harris, 

 Esq., Ilydal Villa, Longtoii Grovo, Sydenham ; and George Fleetwood 

 Gilfillan Esq., of Klip Drift, Diamond Fields, South Africa, Avere 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. The followiiKj Extract /roHi a Despatch from H.M. Minister 

 in Teheran. 



(Communicated by the Right Hon. Earl G-ranville, Secretary of State for 

 Foreign Affairs.) 



" The Meshed Agent to Mr. Alison : — 



"January 21, 1872. 



" On Thursday, the 23rd of December, a severe earthquake oc- 

 curred at Khabooshau. It destroyed half of the town ; about two 

 thousand of the inhabitants were buried mider the ruins, and the 

 remainder fled into the plains. On the 6th instant the place was 

 visited with another severe shock, which killed four thousand people 

 and destroyed whatever buildings remained in the place. Four forts 

 adjacent to Khabooshan have so sunk into the earth that not a vestige 

 of them can be traced. 



" On the 10th instant Ameer Hossein arrived with two thousand 

 horsemen. They report that abovit thirty thousand souls were lost 

 by the earthquakes which recently visited Khabooshan, Bojnoord, 

 and the surrounding villages.'' 



2. Notes on the Geology of the Colony of Queensland. By li. Dain- 

 TREE, Esq., F.G.S. With an Appendix, containing descriptions of 

 the Fossils, by E. Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., Pala3ontologist 

 to the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and W. Carruthers, 

 Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., Keeper of the Botanical Department in the 

 British Museum. 



[Plates IX.-XXVII.] 



The accompanying geological map of Queensland (PI. IX.) may be 

 accepted as giving the approximate areas and rough outlines of the 

 geological structure and I'ock-systems developed in that Colony, and 

 is appended for that piirpose only. It will necessarily be open to 

 criticism in matters of detail ; but the general features of the geologi- 

 cal grouping may be relied on. The section (Fig. 1) from Townsville 

 to the Mackinlay range shows all the geological formations in Queens- 

 land, north of 20° S. lat. 



In a newly settled Colony the first objeest of the geologist is the 

 determination of those districts in which the best land or available 

 mineral wealth is to be obtained, accuracy in detail and purely 

 scientific investigation being deferred to an often remote future. 



