QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 16, 1859. 



Julian Horn Tolme, Esq., C.E., 20 Queen's Square, Bloomsbury ; 

 Thomas Harlin, Esq., M.A., Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cam- 

 bridge, C.E., 13 Duke Street, Westminster; John Lancaster, Esq., 

 Etruria Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire ; Arnold llogers, Esq., 

 F.B.C.S.E., 16 Hanover Square, and the Hon. Robert Marsham, the 

 Mote, Maidstone, were elected Fellows. 



The following communication was read : — 

 Supplemental OBSERVATIONS on the Order of the Axcient Strati fiku 

 Rocks of the North of Scotland, and their associated' Eruptive 

 Rocks. By Sir Bodebice 1. Murchison, V.P.R.S., F.G.S., Di- 

 rector-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, <fec. 



[See the Map, pi. 12, vol. scv.] 



< loimurra 



Introduction. Additional Observations on the 



Fundamental Gneiss. Trad of Durness. 



Cambrian Books of the North-west 



Coast . 



Silurian Quartz-rocks and Limestone. 



As.s v nl. 



Section of lien Mure of AsmiiI. 



Transrene SeotioD from the w t si 



End of Loch Stark to the IuimI 

 Klid of 1 h More. 



Section across Loch Krihoil to the 



adjacent OOUntrj on ihe Ehstt 

 Ljneons E(OOks of Sutherland. 



Ka-tern < liuissoso Rocks of Sutherland 

 and B - 



<!nei--o-e Bocks of the more Southern 



Highland Counties, 

 Conclusion. 



Introduction. — Having stated, in my lasl oommnnication 4 on tola 

 subject, thai I proposed to revifdl the North of Scotland, in order to 



* Quart, .lourii Qool Boo. voi sv, p 359, Dote 



vol.. \vi. — 1'Aitr I. i; 



