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THE GEOLOGIST. 
Professor Fcrdiiwud vou lloclistctter (Vicuna), Geologist of llic Aiistviiin 
Novaro Expedition. — "Anew Map of the Interior of the Noitheru Island of 
New Zealand, constructed during an Inland Journey in 1859." 
Captain Sir Edward IJelclier, R.N., C.B.— " On the Manufaturcof Stone 
Ilatelicts and other Iniplenients by the Esquuneaux, illustrated by native Tools, 
Arrow-heads, &c., &c." 
]Jr. James Hunt. — " On tlie Antiquity of tlie Human Race." 
Professor Macdonald. — " On the Homology of the Vertebrata, and its im- 
portance iu Zoology." 
J. A. Broru. — " On the Velocity of Earthquake-shocks in the Laterite of 
India." 
. — " On the Magnetism of certain Indian Granites." 
Canon Moseley. — "On the Motion of Glaciers." 
Professor Buekman. — "Report on Experiments on the Alteration of the 
Specific Forms of Plants by Culture." 
J. Gwyn Jeffreys, E.R.S. — "Exhibition of Opercular Monstrosities oi Bucci- 
niim uixlatitm." 
Professor Cams. — " On the Value of Development in Systematic Zoology 
and Animal Morphology." 
G. Ogilvie, M.D.— ""On the Hard Tissues of Eem Stems." 
Dr. Ogilvie. — " On the Woody Fibres of Flowering and Cryptogamic 
Plants." 
Prof. Heunessy. — "On the possibility of Studying the Earth's Internal 
Structure from Phenomena observed at its Surface." 
"Prof. Pierce. — "On the Physical Constitution of Comets." 
Mr. W. R. Birt. — "On the Forms of Certain Lunar Craters indicative of a 
Peculiar Degrading Force, with Diagrams." 
P. Lutley Sdlater, F.L.S. — " Ou the Geographical Distribution of Ver- 
tebrates." 
NEW GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE NEIGHBOUEHOOD OF OXFOED. 
On Saturday the 30th June, Sir R. I. Murchison drew the attention of the 
Section to the maps of the neighbourhood of Oxford just completed by the 
Geological Sui'vcy, and accompanied by explanatory memoirs. The area em- 
braced the whole series of formations from the " Woolwich and Reading series" 
of the Tertiary system (Prestwich) to the Lower Lias, and included the towns 
of Banljury, Woodstock, Farruigdon, Tv'autage, T'hame, with Oxford about tlie 
centre (sheets 13, 45 south-west, 15 north-west). This district hiul been sur- 
veyed by Messrs. Hull, Wliitaker, Polwhcle, and Bauermau. 
Mr. Hull then proceeded to give a rapid sketcli of the most interesting 
points recorded in the maps, dwelling particularly on tlie iron-producing beds 
of the Lias, the fragmentary distribution of tiie I'ortlaud and Lo\ier Cre- 
taceous groups, particularly the sponge-gravels of Farringdou. With reference 
to the fresh-^^•ater iron-sands of Shotover Hill, it was shown that they were 
entirely isolated from the marine beds of the Lower Greeusand period, whicli 
range from Culiuim by Nuneliam to Tool-Baldon. After much cousider;ition, 
it was deemed the less liazardous course to colo\ir the fresh-water beds of Shot- 
over as Lower Greensand, under the supposition tiiat they may be an estuarine 
and marginal portion of that formation. At the same time, recollecting 
