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 THE

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

OF

THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

PROCEEDINGS

OF

THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

December 7, 1870.

The Rev. J. W. Todd, D.D., Tudor House, Sydenham, S.E. ; The Hon. Henry Ayers, Adelaide, South Australia; R. W. Peregrine Birch, Esq., C.E., Palace Chambers, Westminster, S.W. ; Alfred Stair, Esq., 4 Surinam Terrace, Stratford, Essex; H. Rivett Carnac, Esq., of Simla, E. Indies ; Thomas Davies, Esq., 47 Rutland Road, South Hackney, E. ; the Rev. S. H. Cooke, Northbourne Rectory, Deal; J. S. Courtney, Esq., Penzance; John Johnson, Esq., C.E., Chilton Hall, Perry Hill, Durham; the Rev. R. H. Morris, M.A., Principal of the Training College for South Wales and Monmouthshire, Caermarthen; and Joseph Drew, Esq., J.P., Belgrave Terrace, Weymouth, were elected Fellows of the Society.

The following communications were read :—

1. Remarks on some Specimens from South Africa. By George Grey, M.D., of Cradock, Cape Colony.

(Communicated, with Notes, by Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S.)

[Abstract.]

Specimens. — § A. Prom the Karoo Formation. — 1. Rippled sandstone ; 2. Shale with Estherioe, near Cradock ; 3. Skulls and bones of two or more species of Dicynodon ; 4. Water-worn slab of sandstone, containing the skull of a Labyrinthodont (?) ; 5. Block of coal, from the north-east margin of the Stormberg range ; 6. Fossil plants from the same locality, comprising Lepidodendron*, Sigil-

Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xii. p. 237. Dr. Grey's specimen is in a hard, dark, micaceous shale ; and Mr. Carruthers, who has kindly examined this and the associated fossil plants, says that it belongs to L. crenatum (Sternberg). On the same slab he observes portions of the stems of Calamites, perhaps of three species, such as those that have a very slender periphery. — T. R. J.]
 * [Dr. Rubidge also refers to Lepidodendron as a Karoo fossil plant, in Quart.

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