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IX. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
(Continued from vol. xviii. p. 386. | 
November 5, 1884.—Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Se., LL.D., F.B.S., 
President, in the Chair. 
HE following communications were read :—- 
1. On a new Deposit of Phocene Age at St. Erth, 15 miles east 
of the Land’s End, Cornwall.” By 8. V. Wood, Esq., F.G.S. 
2. ‘The Cretaceous Beds at Black Ven, near Lyme Regis, with 
some supplementary remarks on the Blackdown Beds.” By the Rey. 
W. Downes, B.A., F.G.S. 
3. “On some Recent Discoveries in the Submerged Forest of 
Torbay.” By D. Pidgeon, Esq., F.G.S. 
November 19.—Prof. T.G. Bonney, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. “ Note on ihe Resemblance of the Upper Molar Teeth of an 
Eocene Mammai (Nzoplagiaulax, Lemoine) to those of Tritylodon.” 
By Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
2. “On the Discovery in one of the Bone-caves of Creswell 
Crag of a portion of the Upper Jaw of Hlephas primigenius, con- 
taining, 2m situ, the first and second Milk-molars (right side).” By 
A. T. Metcalfe, Esq., F.G.S. 
3. “ Notes on the Remains of Hlephas primigenius from the 
Creswell Bone-cave.” By Sir R. Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.G.8., &e. 
4, “On the Stratigraphical Position of the Lower and Middle 
Jurassic Trigonie of North Oxfordshire and adjacent districts.” By 
Edwin A. Walford, Esq., F.G.S. 
December 3.—Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. «Note on a Section near Llanberis.” By Professor A. H. 
Green, F.G.S. 
In this paper the author described a section showing actual un- 
conformity at the base of the Cambrian. In one of the cuttings 
on the railway that runs from the Dinorwig quarries along the 
north-western shore of Llyn Padarn, the basement conglomerate of 
the Harlech and Llanberis group, dipping N.W. at a moderate 
angle, rests upon vertical flaky beds, one of which is a breccia. 
