THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



April 8, 1846. 



James Matheson, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., and Joshua Richardson, 

 Esq., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following communication was read : — 



On the Superficial Detritus of Sweden, and on the Probable Causes 

 which have affected the Surface of the Rocks in the Central and 

 Southern portions of that kingdom,. By Sir Roderick Impey 

 MuRCHisoN, G.C.S., F.R.S., V.P.G.S., Memb. of the Imp. Ac. 

 Sc. St. Petersburg, and Corr. Memb. of the Royal Institute of 

 France. 



In the work on Russia and the adjoining countries published by M. 

 de Verneuil, Count Keyserling and myself, the subject of the erratic 

 and superficial phaenomena of Scandinavia and the northern regions 

 has been discussed at some length, the facts being derived from our 

 joint observations in Russia, and also from personal researches of 

 my own in Poland, Norway and Sweden during the summers of 

 184*3 and 1844. Having since revisited Sweden, and having exa- 

 mined certain districts of that country in company with M. de Ver- 

 neuil, I beg to lay before the Geological Society some additional 

 data which we there collected, confirming and enlarging the views 



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