THE 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
PROCKEDING 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
May 26, 1847. 
Neil Arnott, M.D., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 
The following communication* was read :— 
Notice of the Discovery of Coal on one of the Islands on the Coast of 
the Mauay Peninsuta. By J. R. Logan, Esq. 
[Communicated by Prof. Ansted.] 
Mr. Logan states, in a letter to Prof. Ansted, dated 6th March, 1847, 
that in July 1845 a government steamer was despatched to a place 
called Gurbie, on the Malay coast near Junk-Ceylon, where, the Go- 
vernor had been informed, traces of coal existed. Captain Congalton, 
the Commander of the steamer, proceeded to Temah, which lies on 
the coast about three miles west of the mouth of the Gurbie. He 
there found im a low cliff a horizontal layer of black rock only visible 
at low water, having some resemblance to coal, but found to be in- 
combustible. Mr. Logan then states that on his return from Malacca 
a piece of rock was shown him by Colonel Butterworth, which he had 
received a few days previously from the Honourable Mr. Garling, 
Resident Councillor at Penang. It is a fine clear jet-like mineral, 
* Mr. Prestwich’s memoir on the Bagshot sands, also read this day, is printed 
in connection with a previous paper in vol. iii. p. 378 of the Journal. 
