1867.] BEODIE PURBECB: beds in BTJCKIlirGHAMSHIRE. 197 



called the existing period, as the vegetable remains in the Peat, and 

 in the Clay, seem to be all referable to existing species. 



Maech 20, 1867. 



James Danford Baldry, Esq., 2 Queen's Square Place, Westminster, 

 S.W. ; and Coutts Trotter, Esq., 16 Cadogan Place, S.W., were 

 elected Fellows. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. E.EPOET on Eecext Discoyeries of Gold in New Bettnswick:. 

 By W. S. Shea, Esq. 



[Communicated by the Et. Hon. the Earl of CamarTon,] 



(Abstract. ) 



Mb. Shea gives in his report a detailed account of his explorations 

 into the gold-bearing gravels of certain river-valleys in the counties 

 Yictoria, jS'orthumberland, Carleton, and York, in Central New 

 Brunswick. He has been enabled therefrom to draw the fpUowing 

 inferences : — (1) That the gold in these alluvial deposits is derived 

 from the quartz-veins penetrating the rock of the district ; (2) that 

 the gravel, which contains pebbles of all sizes, is derived from the 

 disintegration of the rocks of the district; and (3) that, judging 

 from the richness in gold of paying drift in California, it is probable 

 that these auriferous gravels will pay also. 



2. On the Discovert of Coal on the Eastern Slope of the Aitdes. 

 By W. Wheelwright, Esq. 



[Communicated by Sir R. I. Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., F.E.S., &c.] 



(Abstract.) 



1e this paper the author reports the occurrence of beds of Coal on 

 the eastern slope of the Andes, between the cities of Cordova and 

 San Juan, about 2b leagues east of the latter city. 



3. On the presence of the Purbeck Beds at Brill, in BtrcKLN'GHA:^:- 

 SHiRE ; and on the Superior EsTUARrsTE Saotds there and at certain 

 places in Oxeordshire and Wiltshire. By the Eev. P. B. Beodie, 

 M.A., F.G.S. 



The existence of the Purbeck beds at Brill * not having been yet accu- 

 rately determined, it seems desirable to notify the fact of their oc- 

 currence there between the estuarine sands (or Hastings sands) of 

 * [ Vidi Mem. Geol. Survey, Explanation of Sheet 45, p. 47.— Edit.] 



