THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 7, 1855. 



William Harrison, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Coal of the North-western Districts of Asia 

 Minor. By H. Poole, Esq. Communicated by the Foreign 

 Office. 



(Abstract.) 



Mr. Poole, in his Reports to Government on the result of his 

 journey to Asia Minor to examine into the probability of workable 

 coal being found in the country near Brussa and Ghio* (Bithynia), 

 in which coal had been reported to occur, states that he travelled 

 from Ghio inland along the south bank of the river flowing from the 

 Lake Ascanias, around the shore of the lake by a south-east route, 

 passing Nicsea and along the north shore, until he returned to the 

 village of Ortokoi, without finding any trace of coal. Marble and 

 limestones prevailed along the whole line, except at Solis, where a 

 narrow band of nearly vertical sandstone cropped out. On the south 



* Known also as Gemlik. 

 VOL. XII. — PART I. B 



