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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  inquiry 
  ; 
  mission-tours 
  were 
  turned 
  to 
  good 
  account 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  series 
  

   of 
  remarkable 
  discoveries 
  was 
  the 
  speedy 
  result. 
  Between 
  one 
  and 
  

   two 
  years 
  subsequently, 
  Mr. 
  Hislop 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  Bombay 
  branch 
  of 
  

   the 
  Royal 
  Asiatic 
  Society 
  a 
  brief 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  Nagpore 
  researches, 
  

   which 
  was 
  printed 
  in 
  that 
  Society's 
  Journal 
  for 
  July 
  1853. 
  After- 
  

   wards, 
  in 
  conjunction 
  with 
  the 
  Rev. 
  R. 
  Hunter, 
  his 
  fellow 
  labourer, 
  

   he 
  transmitted 
  a 
  paper 
  to 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  of 
  London, 
  which 
  

   was 
  read 
  on 
  June 
  21st, 
  1854, 
  and 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Quarterly 
  Journal 
  

   for 
  August 
  1 
  855. 
  Several 
  supplementary 
  papers 
  followed 
  from 
  the 
  

   pen 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Hislop, 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  was 
  a 
  description 
  by 
  

   himself, 
  when 
  he 
  was 
  in 
  this 
  country 
  on 
  sick-leave, 
  of 
  the 
  Nagpore 
  

   Tertiary 
  Shells. 
  Professor 
  Owen 
  described 
  and 
  named 
  a 
  Labyrintho- 
  

   dont 
  Reptile 
  from 
  the 
  Nagpore 
  collection 
  — 
  the 
  BracJiyojis 
  laticeps. 
  

   Professor 
  T. 
  Rupert 
  Jones 
  drew 
  out 
  a 
  brief 
  memoir 
  on 
  the 
  Cyprides. 
  

   Andrew 
  Murray, 
  Esq., 
  P.R.S.E., 
  took 
  up 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  the 
  Insect- 
  

   remains. 
  Sir 
  Charles 
  Bunbury, 
  Bart., 
  described 
  the 
  older 
  series 
  of 
  

   fossil 
  Plants 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  deemed 
  Oolitic, 
  but 
  which 
  still 
  require 
  

   further 
  research 
  to 
  determine 
  their 
  precise 
  date. 
  The 
  Rev. 
  Pro- 
  

   fessor 
  Haughton, 
  F.R.S., 
  detected 
  in 
  the 
  Nagpore 
  collection 
  two 
  new 
  

   minerals, 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  designated 
  Hislopite. 
  The 
  newer, 
  or 
  

   Tertiary 
  series 
  of 
  Plant-relics, 
  with 
  some 
  recently 
  discovered 
  Repti- 
  

   lian 
  remains 
  and 
  other 
  fossils, 
  have 
  still 
  to 
  be 
  described. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Hislop 
  can, 
  however, 
  now 
  no 
  more 
  give 
  assistance 
  in 
  Central 
  

   Indian 
  research. 
  On 
  the 
  4th 
  of 
  September 
  last 
  he 
  was 
  drowned, 
  

   about 
  twenty 
  miles 
  south 
  of 
  Nagpore, 
  while 
  attempting, 
  after 
  dark, 
  

   to 
  cross 
  the 
  flooded 
  backwater 
  of 
  a 
  river. 
  When 
  thus 
  unexpectedly 
  

   cut 
  off, 
  he 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  full 
  vigour 
  of 
  his 
  strength, 
  physical 
  and 
  mental, 
  

   being 
  no 
  more 
  than 
  46 
  years 
  old. 
  The 
  contribution 
  for 
  his 
  widow 
  and 
  

   four 
  orphan 
  children 
  of 
  more 
  than 
  .£3000, 
  of 
  which 
  sum 
  about 
  .£2000 
  

   was 
  raised 
  in 
  India, 
  is 
  an 
  emphatic 
  testimony 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   public 
  that 
  the 
  deceased 
  missionary 
  had 
  faithfully 
  discharged 
  the 
  

   responsible 
  trust 
  confided 
  to 
  him, 
  while 
  yet 
  finding 
  time 
  to 
  advance 
  

   the 
  interests 
  of 
  his 
  favourite 
  science 
  in 
  no 
  inconsiderable 
  degree. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  my 
  Anniversary 
  Address 
  of 
  last 
  year, 
  I 
  said 
  that 
  I 
  

   might 
  probably 
  return 
  to 
  the 
  subject 
  on 
  a 
  future 
  occasion 
  ; 
  and 
  

   an 
  opinion 
  having 
  been 
  expressed 
  by 
  some 
  of 
  my 
  friends 
  that 
  a 
  

   continuation 
  of 
  the 
  investigation 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  Secondary 
  Forma- 
  

   tions 
  would 
  be 
  acceptable, 
  I 
  have 
  determined 
  on 
  this 
  occasion 
  to 
  

   discuss 
  

  

  The 
  Breaks 
  in 
  Succession 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Mesozoic 
  Strata. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  previous 
  Address 
  I 
  showed 
  that, 
  in 
  Britain, 
  between 
  the 
  

   Lauren 
  tian 
  gneiss 
  and 
  the 
  Permian 
  strata 
  there 
  are 
  ten 
  physical 
  

   breaks, 
  or, 
  in 
  other 
  words, 
  unconformities 
  repeated 
  ten 
  times 
  ; 
  and 
  

   each 
  of 
  these 
  peases 
  is 
  accompanied 
  by 
  a 
  sudden 
  and 
  remarkable 
  

   change 
  of 
  fossils, 
  sometimes 
  in 
  the 
  genera, 
  and 
  always 
  in 
  the 
  species, 
  

   so 
  much 
  so 
  indeed 
  that 
  sometimes 
  the 
  change 
  in 
  species 
  is 
  altogether 
  

   or 
  nearly 
  complete. 
  I 
  further 
  connected 
  these 
  interruptions 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  