THE 



QUAETEELY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Jai^uaet 5, 1859, 



John Ford, Esq., Market-Eaisin, Lincolnshire ; Charles Francis 

 Humbert, Esq., Watford ; and Joshua Frey Jepherson, Esq., Bar^ 

 rister-at-Law, Sydney, New South Wales, were elected Fellows, 



The following communications were read :■■ — 



1. On Fossil Plants from the Devonian Rocks of Canada. 

 By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.G.S., Principal of M'Gill College, 

 Montreal. 



In 1843-44, Sir W. E. Logan ascertained, and published in his Re- 

 port* for the latter year, the occurrence of a series of beds of Devo- 

 nian age in the Peninsula of Gaspe, Lower Canada, containing fossil 

 plants, apparently of terrestrial origin, and some of them evidently 

 in situ. Nothing was done toward the precise determination and 

 description of these remains until 1856, when Sir WiUiam kindly 

 permitted the writer of this paper to examine his collection, and to 

 describe before the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science the most interesting specimen contained in it — -a fossil trunk 

 exhibiting a very remarkable and previously undescribed coniferous 

 structure f. The other specimens in the colleetion were so fragment- 



* Report of Progress of Canadian Geological Survey, 1844, p. 36, and Appendix, 

 t Proceedings of American Association, 1856, p. 174. 

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