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Castor, a Lyrse, Capella, and Procyon, some of the principal lines 

 of which they have measured approximatively. They have also 

 observed /3 and y Andromedse, a, j3, e and r\ Pegasi, Rigel, 77 Orionis, 

 /3 Aurigse, Pollux, y Geminorum, a, y and e Cygni, a Trianguli, 

 e, £ and r\ Ursae Majoris, a, /3, y, e and t) Cassiopeia?, and some 

 others.— [Feb. 21, 1863.] 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



[Continued from p. 158.] 

 May 20, 1863. — Professor A. C. Ramsay, President, in the Chair. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. " Further Observations on the Devonian Plants of Maine, 

 Gaspe, and New York." By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 F.G.S. 



Since the preparation of his paper on the Devonian Flora of 

 North-Eastern America, published in the Society's Journal, vol. 

 xviii. pp. 296 et seq., the author has been enabled to explore more 

 thoroughly than before the plant- bearing beds of Perry, in Maine, 

 Gaspe, and New York. The results of these further explorations, 

 together with descriptions of the new species of plants discovered, 

 were given in this paper, — as also were some new and important 

 facts respecting the distribution of the Devonian rocks of the State 

 of New York, which give to several of the plants from that region a 

 somewhat older geological position than that heretofore assigned to 

 them. 



2. " Notice of a new Species of Dendrerpeton, and of the Dermal 

 Coverings of certain Carboniferous Reptiles." By J. W. Dawson, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



This paper referred to new facts ascertained in the course of a 

 re-examination of the remains of Reptiles from the Coal-formation 

 of Nova Scotia, and first to the characters of a new and smaller 

 species of Dendrerpeton, for which Dr. Dawson proposed the name 

 of _D. Oweni. The author then described the remains of skin and 

 horny scales which he had lately discovered, and which he supposed 

 to belong to Dendrerpeton Oweni, Hylonomus Wymani, and H. Lyelli. 

 He also gave restorations of these animals, according to what he 

 regarded as the more probable arrangement of the parts ; and, after 

 expressing his belief that Hylonomus may have Lacertian affinities, 

 he stated that should they prove to be really Batrachian, a new 

 Order must be created for their reception, many of the characters of 

 which would coincide with those of the humbler tribes of Lizards. 



3. " On the Upper Old Red Sandstone and the Upper Devonian 

 Rocks." By J. W. Salter, Esq., F.G.S., A.L.S. 



The conclusions arrived at by Mr. Salter were based upon certain 

 sections in Pembrokeshire, Devonshire, and the North and South of 

 Phil. Mag. S. 4. Vol. 26. No. 175. Oct. 1863. Y 



