THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OP 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 6, 1872. 



Lieut. Douglas A. Scott, R.E., 8 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, 

 W. ; and Dr. J. Dormer Steele, Principal of Elmira Free Academy, 

 Elmira, New York, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. A Report on the Tin Discoveries in Queensland. 

 By T. F. Gregory, Esq. 



(Communicated by the Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley, H.M. Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies). 



Mineral Lands' Office, Stanthorpe, 

 2nd July, 1872. 



Sir, — In pursuance of the instructions conveyed in your memoran- 

 dum dated 18th ult., I have the honour to furnish, for the infor- 

 mation of His Excellency the Governor, a Eeport on the Tin-fields 

 at the head of the Severn river, in the district of Darling Downs, 

 South. 



The general geographical area of the stanniferous country within 

 the Colony of Queensland, so far as is at present known, appears 

 to be comprised within the following limits. Commencing on the 

 main dividing range between the eastern and western waters at 

 Lucky Valley Goldfields, near the head of the Condamine river, 

 the northern boundary extends in a west-south-westerly direction 

 for about twenty-five miles, passing fifteen miles south of the town 

 of Warwick to the head of Pike's Creek, on the Pikedale Run ; 



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