THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON, 



PEOCEEDINGS 



OP 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



December 6. 1865. 



W. Phipson Beale, Esq., 27 Victoria Street, S.W. ; Henry Brad- 

 don, Esq., 5 Danes' Inn, Strand; Captain Eobert Clipperton, 

 H.B.M. Consul at Kertch ; Tellef Dahll, Esq., Kragere, Norway ; 

 E. A. Eskrigge, Esq., 24 The Albany, Old Hall Street, Liverpool ; 

 Hugh Erederick Hall, Esq., Liverpool ; Hedworth Hjlton Joliffe, 

 Esq., Merstham, Surrey ; Edward Myers, Esq., 29 Summer Hill 

 Terrace, Birmingham ; George Pycroft, Esq., M.E.C.S.E., Kenton, 

 Exeter; Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph.D., of the Geological Survey of 

 India, Calcutta; Erwin Harvey Wadge, Esq., Stradbrook Hall, 

 Blackrock, co. Dublin, Ireland ; Henry Augustus Ward, Esq., Pro- 

 fessor of Natural Sciences in the University of Eochester, New York ; 

 and Erederick M. Williams, Esq., M.P., Goonvrae, near Truro, were 

 elected Eellows. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Western Limit of the Eh^etic Beds in South Wales, and 

 on the Position of the " Sutton Stone." By E. B. Tawnet, Esq., 

 F.G.S. With a note on the Corals, by P. Martin Duncan, M.B., 



Sec.G.S. 



[Plates III. & IV.] 

 Contents. 



1. Introduction. 



2. Pyle district. 



3. Bridgend district. 



4. Keuper near Bridgend. 



5. Sutton Stone. 



6. Sutton Series. 



7. Southerndown Series. 



8. Position of the Sutton Stone. 



9. Middle Lias. 



10. Table showing the range of the 



fossils of the Ehsetic beds of 

 South Wales. 



11. Descriptions of the species. 



1. Introduction. — The object of the present paper is to notice some 

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