QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



PEOCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Febbitaey 26, 1873. 



James Henry Johnson, Esq., Strangeways, near "Wigan ; Henry 

 Louis Philipps, Esq., 19 Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale, N.W. ; 

 and William Henry Holloway, Esq., of the Geological Survey of 

 England and Wales, 28 Jermyn Street, S.W., were elected Eellows 

 of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Jtxbassic Bocks of Skye and Baasay. By James Beyce, 

 M. A., LL.D., F.G.S. With a Palceontological Appendix, by Balph 

 Tate, Esq., F.G.S., A.L.S. 



[Plates XI. & XII.] 

 Introduction. — The portion of Skye which is the subject of the 

 present paper has received only a few passing notices since 1819, 

 when Dr. Macculloch's ' Account of the Western Islands,' was pub- 

 blished. Baasay, as being much less accessible, has been even more 

 casually noticed; and Dr. Macculloch's account of its geological 

 structure is the only one which we possess. This distinguished 

 geologist, who did so much admirable work in Scotland, was the 

 first to show that the fossiliferous strata of Skye, Baasay, and the 

 islands adjoining were of the age of the English Lias and Oolites. 

 In 1827 Sir B. Murchison determined, from the existence in them of 



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