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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 Grjjphrra incurva, and some very tine specimens of English and 
Scotch Liassic fossils were exhibited by Mr. J. P. Praser, 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 Pelorosaums Comjhearii (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 th^orth-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 tiii-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, Balph Moore, Skipsey, Currie, 
Gregory, J. Home, Goodall, Gibb, Mark Pry or, Stewart, Parie, 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 \iiner, 
who had collected specimens while at work iu the deep pits of Cambuslang, 
near Glasgow. To add to the interest of this working man's collection of 
Perns, 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, 
tliey will be stimulated to yet greater exertions in w^orking out more fuUy the 
geology of particular districts ; so that we may safely assert that the Glasgow 
Exhibition, 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 Bogers also sent some "flint implements" from the drift-gravel 
of Amiens, in Prance, which added to the interest of the exhibition. 
Liverpool Geological Society. — Jamiary 15, 1861. — The President, 
Henry Duckworth, Esq., P.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, 
Bos, Cervus, Leptorhynchus, a broad-snouted Crocodile, and part of the lower 
jaw of a young Deinotherimi Indicum. 
Mr. Geo. S. Worthy read a paper " On the Geology of Aust Cliff, Glouce^^ter- 
shire," giving a description of the principal features of this most interesting 
section, whicli consists of a base of carboniferous limestone, succeeded uncon- 
formably by new red marls, in which a considerable quantity of gypsum is 
found, and also strontian. These marls are succeeded by a "portion of the 
