Quod si cui mortalium cordi et curæ sit non tantum inventis hærere, atque iis uti, sed ad ulteriora penetrare; atque non disputando adversarium, sed opere naturam vincere; denique non belle et probabiliter opinari, sed certo et ostensive scire; tales, tanquam veri scientiarum filii, nobis (si videbitur) se adjungant -Novum Organum, Præfatio. VOLUME THE TWENTY-SECOND. 1866. PART THE FIRST. PROCEEDINGS OF THE.GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, READER, AND DYER. PARIS:-FRIED. KLINCKSIECK, 11 RUE DE LILLE; J. ROTHSCHILD, 14 RUE DE BUCI. SOLD ALSO AT THE APARTMENTS OF THE SOCIETY, MDCCCLXVI. OF THE OFFICERS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. wwwww Elected February 16th, 1866. President. Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents. Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. | Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S, Prof. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. & L.S. P. Martin Duncan, M.B. Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S. Secretaries. | John Evans, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A. Foreign Secretary. R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, Esq., F.R.S. H. W. Bristow, Esq., F.R.S. P. Martin Duncan, M.B. Treasurer. Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.R.S. COUNCIL. Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S. Sir R. I. Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S. Assistant-Secretary, Librarian, and Curator. H. M. Jenkins, Esq. Clerk. Mr. P. G. Ritchie. Library and Museum Assistant. Mr. R. Tate. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Page ADAMS, Dr. A. LEITH. On Fossil Chelonians from the Ossiferous 594 On the Discovery of Remains of Halitherium in the Miocene BAUERMAN, H., Esq. On the Copper-mines of the State of Michi- 595 448 BRINE, Commander L. On the recent Volcanic Disturbances at 318 ... BRISTOW, H. W., Esq. _On Supposed Remains of the Crag on the 553 CLARKE, The Rev. W. B. On the Occurrence and Geological Posi- DAWKINS, W. B., Esq. On the Fossil British Oxen. Part I. Bos DAWSON, Dr. J. W. On the Conditions of the Deposition of Coal, more especially as illustrated by the Coal-formation of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. (With 9 Plates.)..... On supposed Burrows of Worms in the Laurentian Rocks DAWSON, R., Esq. On the Occurrence of dead Littoral Shells in the Bed of the German Ocean, forty miles from the Coast of Aber- |