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 THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

December 23, 1868.

The Rev. J. F. Blake, M.A., Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ; Thomas Sparke Parry, Esq., Castlebar, Ealing, Middlesex ; and William H. Penning, Esq., of the Geological Survey of England, 28 Jermyn Street, W., were elected Fellows.

The following communications were read : —

1. On the so-called "Eozoonal" Rock. By Prof. W. King and Dr. T. H. Rowney.

(Communicated by Sir R. I. Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., V.P.G.S.)

[Abstract.]

The authors noticed that, since the reading of their former communication in 1866, further descriptions of Eozoon have been published by Hochstetter, Gumbel, Carpenter, Dawson, and Logan ; and after a few words on those by the first two, they proceeded to criticise the others more fully, intimating that the English and Canadian observers have by no means mastered all the difficulties of the subject, nor answered the objections brought forward by them. In the course of these remarks, Messrs. King and Rowney, objecting to the specimen from Tudor, of which they have seen the photograph, and which was described and figured in 1867*, suggested that it is nothing more than the result of infiltration of carbonate of lime, with entangled impurities, between two layers of the sandy limestone. They also stated their belief that the term "Eozoonal " is applicable to any of the ophites they describe, inasmuch as, it was contended, the


 * Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxiii. pls. 11 & 12.

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