QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 2, 1853. 

 George Shaw, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Coal-Measures of the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. 

 By J. W. Dawson, Esq. 



[Communicated by Sir C. Lyell, V.P.G.S.] 



[This Memoir was accompanied by numerous MS. illustrations of sections, tree- 

 stumps, roots, wood-structure, &c., some only of which are here engraved ; and 

 the references to figures having ms. attached, relate to Mr. Dawson's original 

 drawings sent with this communication, and now in the Society's Library.] 



The present paper on the Coal-measures of Nova Scotia is based on 

 observations made by Sir Charles Lyell, with the assistance of the 

 writer, in the summer of 1852, and on farther observations made by 

 the writer in 1853, on whom the completion of the paper has 

 devolved, owing to engagements which prevented Sir Charles from 

 attending to it. 



The coast-section of the South Joggins is already well known to geo- 

 logists as one of the finest exposures of a continuous and conformable 



vol. X. — part I. B 



