THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



June 3, 1846. 



W. Salter, Esq., W. Chambers, Esq., C. Buchanan, Esq., and 

 J. C. Cunnmgham, Esq., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following communication was read : — 



On the Silurian and Associated Rocks in Dalecarlia, and on the 

 Succession from Lower to Upper Silurian in Smoland, Oland, 

 and Gothland, and in Scania. By Sir Roderick I. Mur- 

 CHisoN, G.C.S., V.P.G.S. &c. 



Plate I. 



Having already communicated the additional knowledge I obtained 

 last year (1845), concerning the drift and erratic blocks of Sweden*, 

 I propose in this memoir to give the results of the examination of 

 those palaeozoic and associated rocks in several parts of that country 

 which fell under the joint observation of my friend M. de Verneuil 

 and mysell' during the same period. 



Two of the districts under review have not been critically ex- 

 amined since they were described by Hisinger; and his memoirs 

 being in the Swedish language, with which few persons are fa- 

 miliar, and having been written before the palaeozoic classification 



* See Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. ii. p. 349. 

 VOL. III. — PART I. B 



