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some places a few of the species are very plenti- 
fulj and vary mucli in form. 
The first volume of tlie Geologist contains two interesting ar- 
ticles_, by the same author^ on the oolitic and Has beds of the 
environs of Cheltenham ; these^ with the addition of the present 
list of fossil remains, form a most complete sketch of the geology 
of the district^ displaying the several features in a much more 
distinct and intelligible form than the essays on the same subject 
published, not long since, as the researches of Messrs. Murchi- 
son, Conybeare and Lonsdale. — En. Geologist. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
MANCHESTER GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
November 2m, 1842.— G. W. Wood, Esq., M.P. E.H.S., in 
the chair ; numerous donations announced, amongst the rest, a 
suite of fossils from the Himalaya mountains from Capt. Lacy. 
A letter was read describing the localities from which the 
fossils were obtained. The specimens of organic remains con- 
sisted of fossil bones in fragments, and portions of two shells of 
the genus Ammonites : the former were found near the crest of 
the Neetee Ghaut, at an elevation of 18,000 feet above the level 
of the sea, and appear to have belonged to a large quadruped ; 
one, evidently, being part of a femur ; and the latter were dis- 
covered in a ravine, on the northern descent of the Mana or 
Buddreenath Pass, at a hight of about 17,000 feet. The last 
named shells so much resemble in appearance, colour, and charac- 
ter some of the Ammonites of the Lias and Lower Oolite of 
England, as to be difficult to distinguish the one from the other^ 
The rock specimens comprised a Nodule, composed of singular 
radiated crystals of white quartz ; and three specimens of trap 
rock, containing crystals of carbonate of lime. 
