THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Pebruakt 26, 1862. 



SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 



It was Eesolved that the Annual Contribution to be paid by both 

 Resident and Non-resident Fellows elected after the 1st of March 

 next shall be Two Pounds Two ShilHngs per annum : the Composition 

 for future Annual Contributions being Twenty- one Pounds. 



ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 



George Charlton, Esq., Mining Engineer, Dukinfield, near Man- 

 chester, and Julius Schvarcz, Ph.D., Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, 

 were elected Fellows. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. Chi the Drift containing Recent Shells, in the neighbourhood of 

 "Wolverhampton. By the Rev. William Lister, F.G.S. 



(Abridged.) 



These drift- deposits lie for the most part upon a nearly level surface 

 of Lower Keuper Sandstone, overlooked eastward by a range of low 

 Bunter and Permian hills, of which Show Hill and Bushbury Hill 

 are the chief. Other exposures are upon Permian sandstone in the 

 town of Wolverhampton, and upon the Coal-measures of the district 

 adjoining. Bushbuiy HiU is chiefly remarkable for the number of 

 travelled blocks of granite and greenstone lying around its north- 

 voL. xviii. — part I. M 



