The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London

The following Persons were elected Fellows during the year 1862. January 8th.-Robert Harris Valpy, Esq., Enborne, near Newbury; William Shepherd Horton, Esq., 10 Church Street, Liverpool; Charles Sturtivant Wood, Esq., Geological Survey of Otago, New Zealand.

22nd.-Samuel Sharp, Esq., Dallington Hall, near Northampton; George Parkes Wall, Esq., The Hills, near Sheffield. February 5th.-Captain William Henry Mackesy, 79th Highlanders (Waterford); Harry Seeley, Esq., Čurator of the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge; Thomas F. Jamieson, Esq., Ellon, Aberdeenshire.

26th.-Julius Schvarcz, Ph.D., Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary; George Charlton, Esq., Dukinfield, near Manchester.

March 5th.-William James Dunsford, Esq., 14 Taviton Street, Gordon Square; Charles Henry Gatty, Esq., Felbridge Park, East Grinstead; George Ford Copeland, Esq., 5 Bays Hill Villas, Cheltenham; A. H. Green, Esq., Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge.

19th.-Harvey Buchanan Holl, M.D., Malvern; George W. Hemans, Esq., 32 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater; Edward Romilly, Esq., 14 Stratton Street, Piccadilly; G. Ernest Shelley, Esq., Avington House, Winchester; Elliot Square, Esq., Gresham House, London; Rt. Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 74 Eaton Square; George Wilson Stevenson, Esq., Halifax, Yorkshire.

April 2nd.-Charles Longman, Esq., Hemel Hempstead; Thomas Wyles, Esq., Allesley Park College, near Coventry.

16th. Edward Petre, Esq., 38 Brook Street; T. McKenny Hughes, Esq., of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

May 7th.-Edward Fitton, Esq., 6 Gloucester Crescent, Westbourne Terrace; Henry Francis Blanford, Esq., late of the Geological Survey of India; Frederick Hill, Esq., Penhellis, Helston, Cornwall; Charles Rogers, Esq., 16 Beaufoy Terrace, Maida Vale; Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, Fern Lodge, Kensington; John Langley King, Esq., 56 Wells Street, Oxford Street.

21st.-W. G. Lemon, Esq., B.A., Blackheath; E. W. Cooke, Esq., The Ferns, Hyde Park Gate; Edmund Jones, Esq., Basinghall Street.

June 4th. Rev. D. Honeyman, Antigonish, Nova Scotia; Alexander Macdonald, Esq., Aberdeen.

18th.-John Cumming, Esq.,7 Montague Place, Russell Square; William Topley, Esq., Geological Survey of Great Britain. November 19th.-James Brunlees, Esq., 84 Addison Road, Kensington; M. Auguste Laugel, Ex-Secretary of the Geological Society of France, Orleans House, Twickenham.

December 3rd.-Edward Hesketh Birkenhead, Esq., Master of the Wigan School of Mines; Alan Lambert, Esq., 2 Portugal Street, Grosvenor Square; Samuel Higgs, Jun., Esq., Penzance; Antonio Brady, Esq., Maryland Point, Stratford, Essex.

17th. Richard Richardson, Esq., Rhayader, Radnorshire; John Wickham Flower, Esq., Park Hill, Croydon, Surrey.

The following Personages were elected Foreign Members.
Señor Casiano di Prado, Madrid.

Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen, Göttingen.
Professor Pierre Merian, Basle.

The following Donations to the MUSEUM have been received since the last Anniversary.

British Specimens.

Flint-flakes from Croyde Bay, Devon, and from the South Downs; presented by Nicholas Whitley, Esq.

Large specimen of Ammonites rusticus, from the Chalk near Chard, Somerset; presented by Northcote W. Spicer, Esq.

Specimens of Fossil Plants from Hempstead, Isle of Wight; presented by W. Pengelly, Esq., F.G.S.

Specimens of Rocks from near Ulverston, Lancashire; presented by Miss E. Hodgson.

Specimens of Carboniferous Rocks from Ayrshire; presented by E. W. Binney, Esq., F.G.S.

Two nodules from the Upper Devonian of West Angle Bay, Pembrokeshire; presented by J. W. Salter, Esq., F.G.S.

Foreign Specimens.

Suite of Nickel-ores; presented by S. T. Ayres, Esq.

Suite of Devonian Plants from New Brunswick; presented by Dr. J. W. Dawson, F.G.S.

A Crystal of Quartz containing a laminated Mineral, from Mexico; presented by H. Christy, Esq., F.G.S.

Fossil Wood and other specimens from Quathlamba Mount, Natal;
presented by Captain J. Grantham, R.E.

Tertiary Fossils from Harrow, South Australia; presented by the
Rev. Julian E. Woods, F.G.S.

Suite of Estherian Shales, with Reptilian and Plant-remains, from
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania; presented by C. M. Wheatley, Esq.,
M.A.

Large Plaster-casts of Climactichnites from Perth, Canada West;
and Stand; presented by Sir W. E. Logan, F.G.S.

Specimens of Gold and Silver-ore from Zacatecas, Mexico; pre-
sented by Sign. Gennaro Placci, F.G.S.

Four specimens of Devonian Plants from Nova Scotia; presented by
Dr. J. W. Dawson, F.G.S.

Six specimens of Crystals of Gypsum containing Sand, from New
Brunswick; four Photographs of Vertebræ of Eosaurus Acadianus,
and a Cast of the Vertebræ of Eosaurus Acadianus; presented by
0. C. Marsh, Esq., M.A.

Specimen of Coral from the Gravel of the Meuse, near Namur; presented by Sir F. C. Knowles, Bart., F.R.S.

Specimen of Lead-ore from Monte Vecchia, Sardinia, exhibited at the International Exhibition; presented by W. P. Jervis, Esq., F.G.S. Specimens of Minerals, Rocks, and Nanaimo Coal from Vancouver's Island, exhibited at the International Exhibition; presented by F. J. Langley, Esq.

Specimens of Granite containing Copper-ores, from near Kingston, Jamaica; presented by J. G. Sawkins, Esq., F.G.S.

Specimens of Rocks from Masulipatam; presented by Captain F. Applegath.

Specimens of Ammonites, &c., from near Niti Pass; presented by Col. Strachey, F.G.S.

Specimens of Rocks and Fossils from the Pampean Formation near
Buenos Ayres; presented by C. Darwin, Esq., F.G.S.

Specimen of Carbonate of Lime from the Stalagmitic Floor of the
Rebenac Cave, Pyrenees; presented by H. Christy, Esq., F.G.S.
A large collection of Echinodermata from the Miocene Beds of
Malta; presented by Dr. Leith Adams.

Specimens of Tertiary Plants from the Upper Val d'Arno; presented by Sir C. Lyell, V.P.G.S.

CHARTS, MAPS, ETC. PRESENTED.

Geologische Uebersichts-Karte von Siebenbürgen, von Franz Ritter von Hauer; presented by F. Ritter von Hauer.

Carta Geologica di Savoja, Piemonte, e Liguria; del Commendatore Angelo Sismonda, 1862; presented by Professor A. Sismonda, For.M.G.S.

Geognostische karte des Königreichs Bayern, herausgegeben auf Befehl des kön. bayerischen Ministeriums der Finanzen. Erste

Abtheilung. Das bayerische Alpengebirge und sein Vorland, in fünf Blättern und ein Blatt Gebirgsansichten; im dienstlichen Auftrage aufgenommen und bearbeitet von G. W. Gümbel, München, 1861; presented by His Excellency the Bavarian Minister. Carte Géologique des parties de la Savoie, du Piémont et de la Suisse voisines du Mont Blanc, par Alphonse Favre; presented by M. A. Favre.

Maps of the Gold-fields in the Colony of Victoria: Sheet 1, Ballarat Gold-field and Castlemaine Gold-field; Sheet of Ballarat Mining District; Sheet of Castlemaine Mining District; Sheet of Maryborough Mining District; presented by the Hon. G. S. Evans. Carta Geologica dei Monti Pisani levata dal vero del Cav. Prof. Paolo Savi nel 1832, aumentata e corretta nel 1858; presented by Prof. P. Savi.

Geological Map of the World, by Jules Marcou, constructed by J. M. Ziegler; presented by Messrs. J. Würster & Co.

First Sketch of a New Geological Map of Scotland, with explanatory notes, by Sir R. I. Murchison and A. Geikie, Esq.; presented by Sir R. I. Murchison, K.C.B., F.G.S., and A. Geikie, Esq., F.G.S. Ordnance Survey of Great Britain. Maps, 6-inch scale:-Lancashire, Index-sheet, Sheets 1 to 118. Yorkshire, Index-sheet, Sheets 1 to 301. Ayrshire, Sheets 1 to 14, 16 to 74. Edinburgh, Index-sheet, Sheets 1 to 25. Fife and Kinross, Index-sheet, Sheets 1 to 41. Haddington, Index-sheet, Sheets 1 to 22. Island of Lewis, Ross-shire, Sheets 1 to 49. Kirkcudbright, Index-sheet, Sheets 1 to 55. Linlithgow, Index-sheet, Sheets 1 to 12. Peeblesshire, Index-sheet, Sheets 1 to 21, 23 to 27. Wigtonshire, Indexsheet, Sheets 1 to 37. Durham, Sheets 1 to 5, 8, 17. Westmoreland, Sheets 35, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 48. Dumfriesshire, Sheets 35 to 37, 45, 46, 52 to 54, 58, 63, 68, 69. Berwickshire, Sheets 7 to 9, 13 to 17, 19, 20, 23, and 26.-Ordnance Survey of England. 1-inch scale :-Sheets 91 to 94, 95, N.W., S.W., S.E.; 96, 97, 103, S.W., S.E.; 104, S.W.-Ordnance Survey of Ireland. 1-inch scale :-Sheet 120.-Ordnance Survey of Scotland. 1-inch scale-Sheets 1 to 9, 11, 32 to 34, 40, 41, 106. Isle of Lewis, Sheets 1 to 7. Presented by the Board of Ordnance through the Director-General, Colonel Sir Henry James, F.G.S. Forty-nine Maps and Charts published by the Dépôt de la Marine de la France; presented by the Dépôt de la Marine. Carte Physique et Industrielle de la Néerlande. Sheet 15. Veluwe. Presented by the Minister of the Interior, Holland.

Geological Section through the Tunnels on the Worcester and Hereford Railway, by Alan Lambert, Esq., F.G.S.; presented by A. Lambert, Esq., F.G.S.

Section of a Well at the Tannery of Mr. Lancaster Webb, Stowmarket, Suffolk, and Sections of the Artesian Wells at Grenelle and Passy, near Paris; presented by G. R. Burnell, Esq., F.G.S. Photographs of Somma and Vesuvius, by J. Graham; presented by James Graham, Esq.

Photographs of Sir C. Lyell and Mr. Darwin; presented by L.
Horner, Esq., F.G.S.

The following Lists contain the Names of the Persons and Public Bodies from whom Donations to the Library and Museum have been received since the last Anniversary, February 21, 1862.

I. List of Societies and Public Bodies from whom the Society has received Donations of Books since the last Anniversary Meeting.

Antwerp. Palæontological So- | Edinburgh, Royal Society of. ciety of Belgium.