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THE GEOLOGIST. 



There were some fine Permian specimens which have only recently been dis- 

 covered, showing the relation of the Permian with the Carboniferous fauna. A 

 fine group of Grypheea incurva, and some very fine specimens of English and 

 Scotch Liassic fossils were exhibited by Mr. J. P. Eraser, late president of the 

 Society. There were some rare specimens from the Oolite exhibited by the same 

 gentleman ; and a fine cast of the humerus of the Pelorosaurus Conybearii (taken 

 by Dr. Mantell), the original of which is in the British Museum, was exhibited 

 by one of the council, the Rev. H. W. Crosskey. 



In the Cretaceous division there were exhibited some fine specimens from the 

 chalk of England, embracing a good set of sponges, fish-remains, shells, palatal 

 teeth of sharks ; and some rare specimens from the chalk of the north-east of 

 Scotland. 



A series of Tertiary shells from the Paris basin. The various divisions of 

 the Tertiary formation were represented. One collection of post-Pleistocene 

 shells from' the Kyles of Bute, and one from Uddevalla, in Sweden, showing 

 well the similarity between the beds. Recent shells and plants, illustrative of 

 extinct fossil types, and a very fine set of recent and fossil forms of Brachiopoda, 



The metals were well represented, especially iron-, lead-, and tin-ores, and 

 some particularly fine hematites, etc. 



The minerals and rock-specimens were also very varied, and from many 

 different localities. In addition to the names already mentioned as exhibitors, 

 we have to add those of Messrs. Struthers, Ralph Moore, Skipsey, Currier, 

 Gregory, J. Home, Goodall, Gibb, Mark Eryor, Stewart, Earie, etc., whose 

 varied collections of minerals, metals, or fossils contributed greatly to the 

 success of this exhibition. 



There were in all some forty exhibitors, and amongst them a working miner, 

 who had collected specimens while at work in the deep pits of Cambuslang, 

 near Glasgow. To add to the interest of this working man's collection of 

 Eerns, Calamites, and Sigillaria, spines and teeth of fishes, and shells, he had 

 brought a map and section of the Lanarkshire coal-fields, upon which he had 

 marked the particular strata or deposits where he had worked, and found his 

 specimens — either in the Ell-coal, or Main, Humph, Splint, or Mussel-band, 

 etc. The exhibition, as a whole, spoke well for the great industry of many of 

 the members in collecting the various organic remains of the west of Scotland. 

 By bringing all their various collections together, and having them compared, 

 they will be stimulated to yet greater exertions in working out more fully the 

 geology of particular districts ; so that Ave may safely assert that the Glasgow 

 Exhibit ion, besides creating a great interest in our local geology, will be the 

 means of doing much good in spreading a general knowledge of the " fossil 

 forms" of past creations; and creating a desire for geological information 

 amongst the members themselves. 



Professor Rogers also sent some "flint implements" from the drift-gravel 

 of Amiens, in France, which added to the interest of the exhibition. 



Liverpool Geological Society. — January 15, 1S61. — The President, 

 Eenrj Duckworth, Esq., E.G S., etc., read a paper "On the Isle of Peirin in 

 the Gulf of Cambay," and gave an account of his explorations there a few 

 years ago. The fossils discovered by him were chiefly remains of Mastodon, 

 BoSj (Vitus, Leptorhynchus, a broad-snouted Crocodile, and part of the lower 

 jaw of a young Beinotherium Indimm. 



Mr. Geo. S. orthv read a paper " On the Geology of Aust Cliff, Gloucester- 

 shire," giving a description of the principal features of this most interesting 

 sect ion, winch consists of a base of carboniferous limestone, succeeded uncon- 

 formably by new red marls, iu which a considerable quantity of gypsum is 

 found, and also strontiau. These marls are succeeded by a portion of the 



