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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 i-oda, 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 Karowah Hills 
out of these sediments, l)ut 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 Rev. 
S. Haughton, F.G.S. 
The black mica accompanying the white margarodite of the Leinster granite, 
similar mica at Ballyellin, Carlow, and the black mica found 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, described as Lepidomelane by Soltmann. 
4. " On an Outlier of Lias in Banftshire." By T. F. Jamieson. Esq. In a 
letter to Sir R. I. Murchison, V.P.G.8. 
In a cutting of the Banft' and TurrifT Railway, about four miles to the north of 
Turriff, there has been exposed a thick mass of tenacious blue clay, containing 
Ammonites, Belemnitcs, Gryphceoe, Plagiostomata,, and other fossils of Liassic 
character. 
The author explained his reasons for regarding this day as being a fragment of 
the Lias in silu, 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 
River and Darling Downis, 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 ci-anium belongs, as he suggested in a paper lately read before the 
Society, to his genus Notolhemim, 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." 
Bv 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 exposure 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, under the name of Pro»oponitcm 
prohhmaiicus. 
