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appear to have been the slow result of atmospheric agencies, operating on this 

 very ancient land, from the time of its first exposure as a highly dislocated tract 

 of tertiary and secondary strata, entangled in an irregular trough or basin of 

 crystalline and granitic rocks, until the period when the gradual disintegration 

 of the surface had filled up the step -like cavities with local lacustrine deposits. 

 Subsequently the drainage of the country has not only shaped the Karewah Hills 

 out of these sediments, but has cut through these deposits, often deep into the 

 underlying rock, and, clearing out the gravels and boulders from the choked 

 gorges of the Jhelum at Baramula, has reduced the waters of the old lake of 

 Kashmir to its present narrow limits. Hence the buried condition of the old 

 city and its temple, and other local phenomena, may be accounted for, without 

 recourse being had to the supposition of successive subsidences and upheavals 

 which has been sometimes advanced. 



3. " On the Black Mica of the Granite of Leinster and Donegal.'* By the Eev. 

 S. Haughton, F.G.S. 



The black mica accompanying the white margarodite of the Leinster granite, 

 sim.ilar mica at Bally ellin. Car low, and the black mica foand in the Poisonglen, 

 leading to the pass of Ballygihen, in Donegal, have been carefully examined by 

 the author, and he regards the black mica of Donegal as certainly identical with 

 that of Carlow and Leinster, and probably the same as the black mica from 

 Petersberg, Wermland, descrilbed as Lepidomelane by Soltmann. 



4. "On an Outlier of Lias in Banftshire." By T. F. Jamieson. Esq. In a 

 letter to Sir E. I. Murchison, Y.P.G.S. 



In a cutting of the Banfi" and Turriff Railway, about four miles to the north of 

 Turriff, there has been exposed a thick mass of tenacious blue clay, containing 

 Ammonites, Belemnites, GryphcecB, Plagiostom.ata,, and other fossils of Liassio 

 character. 



The author explained his reasons for regarding this clay as being a fragment of 

 the Lias in situ, and noticed the interest belonging to it as being perhaps the 

 most eastern Liassic outlier in Scotland. 



5. " Notes on a Collection of Australian Fossils in the Museum of the Nat. 

 Hist. Soc, Worcester." By Professor Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



By the examination of a series of mammalian fossils sent from the Condamine 

 Biver and Darling Downs, and now in the Worcester Museum, and of casts of 

 the cranium, upper jaw, and teeth of Macleay's " Zygomaturus," communicated 

 by the Trustees of the Sydney Museum, Professor Owen has been able to demon- 

 strate that this cranium belongs, as he suggested in a paper lately read before the 

 Society, to his genus Nototherium, and to the species which he had dedicated to 

 the late Sir T. Mitchell. A smaller species, provisionally named Nototherium 

 inerme, was also established by Professor Owen on some of the specimens 

 examined ; but he thinks it not improbable that with additional materials it 

 might be found that these two forms may represent the male and female of one 

 species. 



6. " On the Occurrence of some Tertiary Fossils as Chislet, near Canterbury." 

 By John Brown, Esq., F.G.S. With Notes on the Species, by G. B. Sowerby, Esq., 

 F.L.S. 



These fossils were found by Mr. Brown in a small exposirre of sand and clay 

 beds, in a garden on a hill-side in the parish of Chislet, Kent. The beds would 

 appear, according to Mr. Prestwich's sections of that county, to belong to his 

 "Lower London Tertiaries but of the 36 species of Shells, Cirripeds, and 

 Foraminifera met with — 13 are forms found also in the Crag; 9 are English 

 Lower Tertiary forms ; 9 are Belgian Tertiary forms ; and 4 are new species. 



7. " On the Fossil Crustacean found by Mr. Kirkby in the Magnesian Limestone 

 of Durham, and on a new species of Amphipod." By Spence Bate, Esq. Com- 

 municated by Dr. Falconer, F.G.S. 



In this paper Mr. Bate described a new recent Amphipodous Crustacean, which 

 he believes to represent some of the fossil crustacean remains lately described 

 by Mr. Kirkby in the Society's Journal, und^r the name of Froaojponiscut 

 jprohlematicus. 



