Proceedings Author:Geological Society of London Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: opinion, that where the breaks in the strata are greatest, there the granite makes the nearest approaches to them. It is further attempted to be proved, that the... more » granite could not have been in a perfectly fluid state at the period of its elevation, from the fact of its existence in the form of mural and serrated precipices on the flanks of the secondary strata; being in this respect prominently distinguished from the trap of the southern regions of the island, which has, in numberless places, not only penetrated, but overflowed upon the new red sandstone. Erratum In The "pr0ceedings," No. 4.—Page 35, line 16 17. for " rest conformably- on the new red conglomerate," read " rest upon the red conglomerate". THE GE0L0GICAL S0CIETY 0F L0ND0N. 1827—1828. No. 6. At the Annual General Meeting of the Fellows, 5th February 1828 ; A Rep0rt from the Council was read, of which the following is an abstract.— " Comparative Statement of the number of the Society, at the last and present Anniversaries. Fellows. 16th Feb. 1827. 15th Feb. 1828. Having compounded 42 44 Contributing 133 150 Non-resident 200 211 375 405 Honorary Members 57 55 Foreign Members 46 47 Total 478 507 " The Names of the Fellows deceased within the past year are as follow:— Dr. Clarke Abel. Captain Apsley. Morris Birkbeck, Esq. Sir Harry Calvert, Bart. Rev. Dr. Haggit. Right Hon. Geo. Knox. Rev. Thomas Leman. Abraham Mills, £sq. Daniel Moore, Esq. Robert Morison, Esq. M. le Chevalier Luis D'Onis. John Harrison Thompson, Esq. Honorary Members deceased: John Hawker, Esq. | Joseph Wilkinson, Esq. Foreign Members elected : M.Charles von Oeynhausen. | M. Henry von Dechen, Foreign Member deceased: Signer G. Brocchi. chapter{Section 4000 oo Io ...« less