THE 



QUAETERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



PEOCEEDINGS 



OP 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Pebetjaey 6, 1867. 



E. G. M. Browne, Esq.. Admiralty Registrar, Doctors' Commons, 

 and 9 College Crescent, Hampstead, ^."W. ; the Eev. Michael Alfred 

 Moon, Cleator, near Whitehaven ; and Benjamin B. Orridge, Esq., 

 33 St. John's Wood Park, N.W., were elected EeUows. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On some Secondary Eossils /rom Sotjth Apeica. 

 By Ralph Tate, Esq., A.L.S., F.G.S. 



[Plates V.-IX.] 



Contents. 

 I. Introduction. 

 II. Karoo Beds. 



a. Fossil Flora of the Karoo Beds, 



b. General Eemarks on the Fossil Plants of the Karoo Beds. 



c. Synopsis of the Karoo Beds, by Professor T. Bupert Jones, F.Gr.S. 

 III. Uitenhage Series. 



a. Fossil Flora of the Geelhoutboom Series. 



b. Greneral Remarks on the same. 



c. Synopsis of the Uitenhage Series, by Prof. T. Bupert Jones, F.G.S. 



d. Description of some Jurassic Fossils from Uitenliage, South Africa. 



e. General Remarks on the Jurassic Fauna of South Africa. 



lY. Observations on the Secondary Strata of South Africa, and on their foreign 

 equivalents. 

 Y. Table of the Organic Remains of the Uitenhage Formation. 



a. Flora of the Wood-bed Series at Geelhoutboom. 



b. Faima of the Uitenhage Formation. 



I. lNTRODTJCTIOi;r. 



As a large number of fossils from the Secondary rocks of South 

 Africa remain undescribed in the Society's Museum, it seems desi- 

 rable that an account of them should be submitted to the Society, as 



YOL. XXIII. PAET I. M 



