548 THE GEOLOGIST. 



" Exhibition of New Geological Survey Maps." By Sir R. I. Murchisofl, 

 V.P.G.S. 



"On the Old Red Sandstone of South Perthshire." By Professor R. 

 Harkness, E.G.S. 



" On the Aqueous origin of Granite." By Mr. A. Brysoh. 



" On the^Age of the Dartmoor Granites." By W. Pringelly, E.G.S. 



"On the late changes in the Physical Geography of British North America, 

 with Notes on the Auriferous Drifts of the Pacific Slope." By Dr. Hector, 

 E.G.S. 



"On the Age and Distribution of the Mesozoic Coal of the Pacific Coast 

 and Saskatchavan Prairies." By Dr. Hector, E.G.S. 



"On certain Markings in Sandstones." By Mr. W. Patterson. 



< 'Information respecting the present state of the Imperial Geological In- 

 stitute of Vienna." By Director Hardinger, Eor. M.G.S. 



«Q n the Details of the Carboniferous Limestone, as exhibited in the railway- 

 cutting and tunnel near Almondsbury, west of Bristol." By Mr. Richardson, 

 C E 



''Report on Examination of Minerals." By Mr. A. Gag=s. 

 "An Examination of some points on the Doctrine of the Internal Heat of 

 the Globe." By Professor W. Thomson, E.G.S. 



In the other sections, the following papers were of interest to geologists # 



" On the action of Lime on Animal Matter." By John Davy, M.D., E.R.S 



" On the Motion of Glaciers." By W. Hopkins, E.G.S. 



V On the Spitzbergen Current, and Active and Extinct Yolcanos in South 

 Greenland." By Colonel Shaffner, U.S. 



" Notes of Sketches of Parts of the Surface of the^Mooii." By Professor 

 Phillips, E.G.S. ; 



" Physical considerations regarding the probable age of the Sun's Heat. 

 By Professor Thompson. 

 '" Report on the Theory of the Exchanges of Heat." By Balfour Stewart, 



PROCEEDINGS OF GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. 



Geological Society of London. — November C— Sir R. I. Murchisoii, 

 Y.P.G.S., in the Chair. 



The following communications Were read :— 



1. "Note on the Bone-Caves of Luniel-Yicl, Hcrault." By M. Marcel clc 

 S'erres. 



These bone-caves, in Miocene limestone, on the Mazct estate, near Mont- 

 pelliev, discovered about 1823, and described in 1839 by MM. Marcel dc 

 Series, Dubrueil, and Jeau-Jean, comprise a large cave and some smaller fis- 

 sures, containing red earth with pebbles, and an abundance of bones and 

 eoproliteSj of hyaena, lion, bear, wolf, fox, otter, boar, beaver, rhinoceros, 

 horse, deer, ox, &o., with birds and reptiles. The author expressed his belief 

 anew that the association of pebbles with the bones in caves is a common 

 phenomenon, and an evidence of the accumulation of the materials — gnawed 



