QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mat 4, 1859. 



Matthew Moggridge, Esq., Swansea, Frank Johnstone Mitchell, 

 Esq., Newport, Monmouthshire, and Thomas Wright, M.D., Chel- 

 tenham, were elected Fellows. 



The following communications were read : — 



1 . On the Ossiferous Grotta di Maccagnoxe, near Palermo. 

 By Dr. H. Falconer, F.U.S., V.P.G.S. 



[This communication was made in a letter addressed to Sir C. Lyell, V.P.G.S., 

 and dated Palermo, .March l'l. 1 S.V.I. In June Dr. Falconer. ha\in^ returned 

 borne, and his specimens having been examined, read a further and fuller com- 

 munication on die same Bubjeci before the Society on the 22nd of June. By 

 permission of the Council the follow bag abridgement of the Memoir, comprising 



the information given in the first communication, is here published in place Of 



the Letter.] 



[Abstract.] 



I)k. F.w/'onkk first described the physical geography of that portion 



of the north coast of S i < • i I \ in which tin- ossiferous caves abound, 



namely between Termini on the easl andTrapani on tin- west. The 

 geological structure of the tract had been ably investigated and 

 mapped by Boffmann. A great mass of Bippurite-limeetone 

 stretches iVoni Terniini to the eastern aide of the Hay of Castella- 

 inare. which on the side towards Tennini forms ragged precipitous 

 or Bcarped cliffs skirting the sea-shore. From ('ape Zafiarana to 

 Capo di Gallo, a distance of about twenty miles, the coast-line is 



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