THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



May 14, 1845. 



Joseph Yelloley Watson, Esq., Professor Thomas Graham, M.A., 

 and John CoUis Nesbit, Esq., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Coal Beds of Lower Normandy. By R. A, C. Austen, 

 Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 



Several tours in Lower Normandy have enabled me to observe 

 the geological structure of that district, and to trace the distribution 

 of fossil forms through several groups of strata. It was my inten- 

 tion to have embodied these facts in two separate memoirs, of which 

 one would have related to the Palaeozoic group, and the other to the 

 Cretaceous; but in the autumn of 1844 I revisited many parts of 

 Belgium and Rhenish Prussia, and have, in consequence, been in- 

 duced to alter my original plan of describing the Cotentin and part 

 of Calvados separately ; and instead of this 1 now propose to lay 

 before the Society two general memoirs on those two groups, as tluy 

 are developed in Western Europe. I have therefore detached the 

 short notice of the Littry and Plessis coal-fields, which form the 

 subject of the present communication, from the memoir of which it 

 originally formed part. 



My last visit to Lower Normandy was in the autumn of 1843. I 

 had then expected to find that a line of section taken northwards 



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