XIV ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



List of Papers read since the last Anniversary Meetinff, 

 February \5t/i, 1856. 

 1856. 

 Feb. 20th. — Report of a Visit to the Dead Sea, by H. Poole, Esq. ; 

 forwarded by the Foreign Office. 



On the Affinities of the large extinct Bird (Gasfornis 



parisiensis), indicated by a fossil femur and tibia, discovered in the 

 lowest Tertiary near Paris, by Prof. Owen, F.G.S. 



On some Mammalian Fossils from the Red Crag of 



Suffolk, by Prof. Owen, F.G.S. 

 March 5th. — Notes on the Geology of some parts of South Africa, by 



R. N. Rubidge, Esq. (in a letter to Sir R. I. Murchison, F.G.S.). 

 On Fossil Remains in the Cambrian Rocks of the 



Longmynd, by J. W. Salter, Esq., F.G.S. 



On the Lowest Sedimentary Rocks of the South of 



Scotland, by Prof. R. Harkness, F.G.S. 

 March 19th. — On some Organic Remains from the Bone Bed at the 



base of the Lias, by the Rev. Mr. Dennis ; communicated by Sir 



Charles Lyell, F.G.S. 

 . Note on the Borings in the Valenciennes Coal-field, 



by MM. Degousee and Laurent. In a Letter to A. Tylor, Esq. 

 On the Age of some of the Sandstones and Breccias 



in the South of Scotland, by Prof. R. Harkness, F.G.S. 

 April 9th. — On the Strata in the Cliffs of Hastings, by S. H. Beckles, 



Esq., F.G.S. 

 • On the Geology of Sydney, Australia, by J. S. Wilson, 



Esq. ; communicated by Sir R. I. Murchison, F.G.S. 



on the Stratigraphical Relations of the so-called Sands 



of the Inferior Oolite, by T. Wright, M.D. ; communicated by Prof. 

 Ramsay, F.G.S. 



On the probable Origin of the Dover Straits by means 



of a Fissure, by M. Ami Boue, For.M.G.S. 



April 23rd. — On the Formation of Craters, and the Nature of the 

 Liquidity of Lavas, by G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., M.P., F.G.S. 



May 7th. — On the Lignites at Bovey-Tracey, by Dr. Croker ; com- 

 municated by the President. 



On some appearances observed in draining a Mere 



near Wretham Hall, Norfolk, by C. J. F. Bunbury, Esq., F.G.S. 

 On a Fossil Track from the Millstone-grit of Tint- 



wistle, Cheshire, by E. W. Binney, Esq., F.G.S. 



Analysis of the Cleveland Iron-Ore, by A. Dick, Esq. 



communicated by Dr. Percy, F.G.S. 



Notice of the Occurrence of Coal near the city of E-u 



in China, by the Rev. R. H. Cobbold. (From the Foreign Office.) 

 May 28th. — On the Silurian Rocks of Wigtonshire, by John Carrick 



Moore, Esq., F.G.S. 

 ' On the Influence of Ocean Currents on the Forma- 

 tion of Strata, by C. Babbage, Esq.; communicated by W. II. 

 Fitton, M.D., F.G.S. 



