936 



GENEKAL INDEX. 



309 ; Upper Hartfell shale at, ver- 

 tical section of, 315 ; Birkhill shale 

 at, vertical section of, 319-322. 

 Dolerite, two intrusive sheets of, Se- 

 condary strata of Inferior-Oolite 

 age entangled between, at Garavei- 

 lan, Shi ant Isles, 677. 

 Dover, Lower Chalk of, Mr. E. T. 

 Newton on a new fish from the, 

 439. 

 Drift, in the neighbourhood of the 

 Falls of St. Anthony, Mississippi 

 basin, 886. 



, modified, of British Columbia, 



105. 

 , unstratified, of British Colum- 

 bia, 103. 

 Drifts, lists of Mollusca of, in Lanca- 

 shire, Cheshire, &c, 394. 

 Duart Bay, Poikilitic rocks of, 694. 

 Duncan, Prof. P. Martin (President), 

 Address on presenting the Wollas- 

 ton Gold Medal to Dr. Thomas 

 Wright. Proc. 27 ; Address on pre- 

 senting the balance of the proceeds 

 of the Wollaston Donation Fund to 

 Mr. W. J. Sollas, 28 ; Address on 

 handing the Murchison Medal to 

 Mr. Warington W. Smyth, for trans- 

 mission to Dr. H. B. Geinitz, 29 ; 

 Address on handing the balance of 

 the proceeds of the Murchison Geo- 

 logical Fund to Mr. Henry Hicks for 

 transmission to Mr. C. Lapworth, 

 30 ; Address on handing the Lyell 

 Medal to Mr. J. W. Hulke for trans- 

 mission to Mr. George Busk, 3 1 ; 

 Address on handing the balance of 

 the proceeds of the Lyell Fund to 

 Dr. Oldham for transmission to Dr. 

 W. Waagen, 3 3 ; Anniversary Ad- 

 dress, February 15, 1878 : Obituary 

 Notices of Deceased Fellows : — Sir 

 Henry James, 34 ; Dr. James Bryce, 

 35; Mr. John Leckenby, 35; Dr. 

 J. S. Bowerbank, 36 ; Mr. W. Har- 

 ris, 37 ; Mr. Edward Wood, 36. 

 Address on the influence of advanced 

 morphological and zoological in- 

 vestigations upon palseontogical 

 knowledge, 38-72. 

 Dun Can, section through, 671. 

 "Dunstones" of Northern Cornwall, 

 482. 



of South-eastern Cornwall, 492. 



Duporth, eruptive rock at, 473 ; ana- 

 lysis of, 474. 

 Dyke in Dimetian, east of Porthlisky, 

 St. David's, microscopic structure of, 

 144. 



Dykes in Charnwood Forest, 221. 



in Teesdale, 29, 30. 



, basaltic, of the Avrshire coast, 



782. 



Earl's Hill, section through, 279. 

 Earth's axis of figure, Eev. J. F. 

 Twisden on possible displacements 

 of the, produced by elevations and 

 depressions of her surface, 35. 

 Echinodermata, Arctic, 590. 

 Edinburgh neighbourhood, Mr. E. 

 Etheridge, jun., on our present 

 knowledge of the Invertebrate fauna 

 of the Lower Carboniferous or cal- 

 ciferous sandstone series of the, 

 especially of that division known as 

 the Wardie shales, and on the first 

 appearance of certain species in these 

 beds, 1. 

 Eigg, Great Estuarine series of, 723, 



724 ; Oxford clay in, 726, 727. 

 Eldinhope Burn, section in, 282 ; zone 

 of Monograptus spinigerus at, 325. 

 Elephas antiquus, tooth of, from near 



Tangier, 514. 

 Encrinurus lasvis, 592. 

 Enderby, pit south of, diagram of 

 junction of syenite and slate in, 227. 

 Entalis Meyeri, 62. 

 Envs, J. D., on sand-worn stones from 



New Zealand, 86. 

 Eocene Clay of Sheppey, Prof. Owen 

 on Argillornis longlpennis, Ow., a 

 large bird of flight from the, 124. 

 Erratics in the Upper Punjab, 371 ; 

 of Harris, 838 ; of North Uist, 847 ; 

 of South Uist, 852 ; of Barra, 857. 

 Esquimalt, coast section between Vic- 

 toria and, 94. 

 Estuarine conditions prevalent 

 throughout the Mesozoic series in 

 the Western Highlands, 680. 



deposits of the Lower Oolite in 



the Western Highlands, 719, 720, 

 722. 

 series of the Oolites in the West- 

 ern Highlands, 722. 

 Etheridge, B., Esq., on the Palaeon- 

 tology of the Coasts of the Arctic 

 lands visited by the late British 

 expedition under Capt. Sir George 

 Nares, K.C.B., 568. 

 Etheridge, E., jun., Esq., on our 

 present knowledge of the Inver- 

 tebrate fauna of the Lower Car- 

 boniferous or Calciferous Sandstone 

 series of the Edinburgh neigh- 

 bourhood, especially of that divi- 

 sion known as the Wardie Shales, 



