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PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



POSTPONED PAPERS. 



1. The Alps and the Himalayas, a Geological Compaeisok. 

 By Heney B. Medlicott, A.B., P.G.S. 



(Eead June5, 1867^'.) 



Contents. 



I. Introduction. I HI. Sketch of some Subhimalayan 



II. IS'otiee of current opinions on sections. 



Alpiae sections. | IV. Suggested parallelism of the Al- 



I pine and Subhimalayan sections. 



I. Inteodtjctiois". 



Ik the summer of 1865, 1 obtained six months' leave of absence from 

 India, after eleven years of continnous residence. I was anxions to 

 make the most of the brief opportunity to bring my thoughts into 

 relation with those of the working geologists of Europe. My best 

 available means of doing this was to visit some well-known ground, 

 and to study what had been written of it. Eor such a purpose I 

 was most fortunate in being able to select the Alps. K"o region has 

 been more explored and written about ; and, as much of my own 

 work in India had been upon certain portions of the Himalayan 

 range, it had long been my desire to compare my sections with 

 analogous ones in regions geologically classical. The opportunity 

 was so brief and without prospect of renewal, that I thought it best 

 for my purpose to take a rapid view of a large area, rather than 

 attempt the close examination of any one locality. Accordingly I 

 c'evoted one month to the outer Alps, between the lake of Constance 

 and Grenoble, — the Molasse and its relations to the mountain-range 

 being the points to which my attention was specially directed. Im- 

 mediately upon my arrival in India, at the beginning of the cold 

 season, I had to start into camp. It has only been since my return 



* For the other communications read at this Evening-meeting, see Quart. 

 Journ. G-eol. Soc. vol. xxiii. pp. 322 ct sea. 



