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Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Oregon on June 24, 2016 PROCEEDINGS OF TIt~. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. SESSION 1875-76. November 3, 1875. Jom~ EvAxs, Esq., V.P.R.S., President, in the Chair. Thomas Andrew, Esq., 18 Southernhay, Exeter; Harry :~. Becher, :Esq., White Lodge, "Barnes, S.W. ; Arthur Back Kitchener, :Esq., F.C.S., 19 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. ; Daniel Morris, :Esq., Grammar School, Burnley; Christopher Thomas Richardson, ~[.D., 13 Nelson Crescent, ttamsgate ; and Gustavus A. H. Thureau, :Esq., Lecturer on Geology and Practical Mining, School of Mines, Sandhnrst, u were elected Fellows of the Society. The Lists of Donations to the Library and Museum were read. The following communications were read :-- 1. "On some new Maerurous Crnstacea from the Kimmeridge Clay of the Sub-Wealden Boring, Sussex, and from Boulogne-sur-" Mer." By Henry Woodward, :Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 2. "On a new Fossil Crab from the Tertiary o5 New Zealand." By Henry Woodward, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 3. "On a remarkable Fossil Orthopterous Insect from the Coal- measures of Britain." By Henry Woodward, :Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 4. "On the Discovery of a Fossil Scorpion in the English Coal- measures." By Henry Woodward, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 5. "The Drift of Devon and Cornwall, its Origin, Correlation with that of the South-east of England, and Place in the Glacial Series." By Thomas Belt, :Esq., F.G.S. u XXXII. r Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Oregon on June 24, 2016 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL ~ETY. The following specimens were exhibited :-- 1. Specimens in illustration of Mr. H. Woodward's papers; exhi- bited by Henry Woodward, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 2. Specimens from the banks of the River Murray, South Aus- tralia; presented to the Society by F. S. Dutton, Esq., through Ralph Tare, Esq., F.G.S. 3. Three specimens of Gasteropoda from Pingri Nov, Thibet; presented to the Society by Capt. E. F. Chapman, R.A. 4. Femur of Ebrphasprim~genius from Crayford, Kent; exhibited by Prof. Tennant, F.G.8. 5. A Butterfly's wing from the Stonesfield Slate, and some draw- ings of rare and remarkable fossils from the Red Crag, by Rev. 3. Henslow; exhibited by E. Charlesworth, Esq., F.G.S. November 17, 1875. Jom~ EvxNs, Esq., V.P.R.S., President, in the Chair. Robert Elliot Cooper, Esq., C.E., 1 Westminster Chambers, Vic- toria Street, S.W. ; George Fowler, Esq., Assoe.InskC.E., Basford Hall, Nottinghamshire; and William Frencheville, Assoc. Royal School of Mines, 51 8earsdale Villas, Kensington, W., were elected Fellows of the Society. The Lists of Donations to the Library and Museum were read. The following communications were read :-- 1. "On a new modification of Dinosaurian Vertebrm." By Prof. Richard Owen, C.B., F.R.S., F.G.S., &e. 2. "On the presence of the Forest-bed Series at Kessingland and Pakefield, in Suffolk, and its position beneath the Chillesford Clay." By John Guun, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. TH~ Pm~mxTr announced that photographs of ~fr. ~tpper's beautiful drawing of Cruziana semi~licata could be obtained by Fellows of the Society on application to ~essrs. B. J. Edwards & Co., Lincoln Terrace, Kilburn. The following specimens were exhibited :-- 1. Dinosaurian Vertebrae; exhibited by Prof. Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 2. Specimens of antlers &c. from the soil of the Forest-bed at Kessingland and Pakefield, Suffolk ; exhibited in ilhtstration of his paper, by John Gunn, Esq., F.G.S. 3. Fragment of a large specimen of ~roluta Lamb~rtl ; an Antler of 6Yervus ela2hus from the Corallino Crag; and a portion of an Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Oregon on June 24, 2016 I~ROCP~DINGS01~ ~ GEOT.0GICAI~S0CII~TY. 3 Antler from the Norwich Crag, Thorpe : exhibited by John Gunn, :Esq., F.G.S. 4. Specimens of wood &c. from the submerged forest off the coast of Jersey ; exhibited by R. A. Peacock, :Esq., :F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 6. Right ramus of lower jaw of RAinoceros tichorhinus; exhibited by Prof. Tennant, F.G.S. 6. Cruzlana sem~plicata, Bangor, North Wales; and Festiniog Slate with curious impression: exhibited by the Rev. John Peter, F.G.S. 7. Reptilian Yertebr~ from Chilton, Isle of Wight ; exhibited by J. W. Hulke, Esq., F.G.S. 8. Sexual clasping-organ of the Basking Shark, Red Crag, Suffolk, and sections of teeth of E/ephas from the Crag and Forest-bed; ex- hibited by E. Charlesworth, Esq., F.G.S. December 1, 1875. JoltN :Ev~s, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. M. Rodolfo de Arteaga, Associate of King's College, London, of ~fontevideo, South America; William Henry Barnard, :Esq., Re- gistrar, School of Mines, Ballaarat, u Australia; the Rev. J.. Clifford, M.A., :LL.D., B.Se., 22 Alpha Road, St. John's Wood, N.W.; Lieut.-Gem Robert Fitzgerald Copland-Crawford, R.A., Sudbury Lodge, Harrow, Middlesex; Walter Derham, Esq., B.A., of Henleaze Park, Westbtury-on-Trym, Bristol; James Duigan, :Esq., of Wanganui, New Zealand ; George R. Godson, :Esq., Assoc. Inst. C.:E., F.R.C.I., 14 Rutland Gate, Hyde Park, W. ; the Rev. Algernon Sydney Grenfell, M.A., Mostyn House, Park Gate, Chester; Sir David Salomons, Bart., of Broomhill, Kent, and Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, W. ; Aubrey Strahan, :Esq., B.A., of the Geological Survey of England; William Thomas, Esq., Mining :Engineer, of Glyncastle, Resolven, Neath; Edward Wethered, Esq., F.C.S., Heatherfield House, the Avenue, Clifton, Bristol ; the Rev. Burgess Wilkinson, Melb0urn, Cambridgeshire ; and :Edward Alfred Wiinsch, :Esq., Makersten House, Largs, N. B., were elected Fellows of the Society. The List of Donations to the. Library was read. The following communication was read :-- " On the Granitic, Granitoid, and associated Metamorphic Rocks of the Lake-district."--Parts III., IV., and Y. By J. Clifton Ward, Esq., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Oregon on June 24, 2016 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOOICAL SOCIETY. The following specimens were exhibited :-- Rock specimens from the Lake-district, Model of the district round Keswick, and Photographs of Microscopic Sections of Rocks ; exhibited by J. Clifton Ward, Esq., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. December 15, 1875. JoKs EvAns, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. Francis James Bennett, Esq., of the Geological Survey of Eng- land; Alfred Allinson Bourne, Esq., M.A., Rossall School, Fleet- wood; Charles Thomas Clough, Esq., B.A., Scholar of St. Johu's College, Cambridge, of the Geological Survey of England; John Law Cherry, Esq., Grove Terrace, Havelock Place, Hanley, Stafford- shire; William Herbert Dalton, Esq., of the Geological Survey of England ; Walter Saise, Esq., B.8c. Lond., Holly Lodge, St. George, Bristol; James Weeks 8zlumper, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Aberystwith; and Lamont Henry Graeme Young, Esq., Assoc. R. School of Mines, Lynndale, 9 Manor Road, Forest Hill, S.E., were elected Fellows; and Prof. August Quenstedt, of Tiibingen, a Foreign Member of the Society. The List of Donations te the Library was read. The following communications were read :-- 1. "' Notes on the Physical Geology of East Anglia during the Glacial Period." By W. H. Penning, Esq., F.G.S. 2. "Denuding Agencies and Geological Deposition under the Flow of Ice and Water, with the laws which regulate these actions, and the special bearing on river-action of observations on the Mississippi and other great rivers, and their present and past Meteorological conditions, and similar remarks on Marine Deposits, illustrated by the Irish Sea and the Chesil Beach." By A. Tylor, Esq., F.G.S. [Ab~r~t *.] The writer adduced evidence by measured sections and drawings to show that the Quaternary gravels were deposited rather in a wet or pluvial than in a snowy or Glacial period. He thought the de- nuding action of springs and the alternate action of rain and frost had been neglected. He considered Agassiz and other writers had overlooked the previous writings of Playfair, to whom he referred. Playfair explained the action of land glaciers as geological agents in 180'2. The rainfall of Westmoreland, Switzerland, and the MiRsissippi valley were compared in summer and winter, to prove that floods were not necessarily greater from land covered with snow thau A fuller report is published in the ~Oeolo~cal Magazine' for February 1876, p, 90. Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Oregon on June 24, 2016 PROCEEDINGS 0i~ THE GEOLOGICAI~SOCIETY. from land covered with trees and vegetation when height above the sea and local circumstances were taken int5 consideration. Yr. Dana's "Great Glacier," whose melting was to supply a Quaternary river, Mississippi, 50 miles wide, would require a supply equal to 625 times the present rainfall to fill it. The melting of snow was assumed to be of such proportions by m~:~.J~ ~y~ters as to equal the d6bs of older geologists. The high Swiss mountains pointed to a greater diminution of snow on high ground in the Glacial period: and he believed the clouds then discharged near the sea-level, so that the mass of snow and ice was at low levels, the vapour having been abstracted pre- viously from the air. It appears that in Greenland in the 80th parallel, according to NordenskiSld, near the sea in summer there is no snow on the ground on cliffs 1000 or 1500 feet above the sea.