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0 / Edinburgh^ Session 1864-65. 
Eedevoering ter Aanvaarding van bet ambt van Buitengewoon 
Hoogleeraar aan de Hoogescbool te Leiden, den vijf en Twin- 
tigsten September 1863, uitgesproken door Dr D. Bierens de 
Haan. Deventer, 1863. 8vo. — From the Author. 
G-odefroid de Bouillon a Boulogne-sur-mer, a Bruxelles, et a Jeru- 
salem— Lettre a M. le Comte d’Hericourt, par le Baron de 
Hody. Bruxelles, 1863. 8vo. — From the Author. 
Coup-d’oeil sur FEploitation de la Houille en Angleterre et sur les 
derniers perfectionnements qui y ont ete introduits par M. 
Guillaume Lambert. Bruxelles, 1864. 8vo. — From the Author. 
Proceedings of tbe Koyal Horticultural Society. Vol. Y. No. 1. 
London, 1865. 8vo. — Erom the Society. 
Tbe Journal of tbe Cbemical Society, London. December 1864. 
8 VO. — From the Society. 
Proceedings of tbe Eoyal Geographical Society, London. Yol. IX. 
No. 1. 8 VO. — From the Society. 
Journal of tbe Proceedings of tbe Linnean Society, London. YoL 
YIII. No. 30, Zoology. 8vo.— AVom the Society. 
Monday, Qtli February 1865. 
Sir DAYID BEEWSTEH, President, in tbe Chair. 
At the request of the Council Mr Geikie gave the following 
Account of the Progress of the Geological Survey in Scot- 
land, illustrated by Maps and Sections : — 
Tbe object of tbe Geological Survey is to ascertain in detail tbe 
geological structure of tbe United Kingdom, and to publish tbe 
results in maps, sections, and descriptive memoirs. Tbe Ordnance 
maps form tbe groundwork on which these geological investigations 
proceed ; and as no district is examined until these maps are ready, 
tbe progress of tbe Geological Survey is guided in no small degree 
by that of the Ordnance engineers. In Scotland, tbe geological 
mapping has hitherto been conducted wholly upon the county 
maps on the scale of six inches to a mile, and tbe advantages of 
so large a scale are such, that although tbe work is finally reduced 
