GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
April 27th. Ronsatex Muncmsoa, Esq.,President, in the Chair.
William Pyle Taunton, Esq. of Stoke Bishop, near Bristol, was elected a Fellow of this Society. An extract was first read from a Letter of the Reverend George Grey, explanatory of certain Subterraneous Sounds, occasionally heard at Nakoos, near Tor, in Arabia ; and communicated by the President. A paper was then read " On some Effects of the Atmosphere in wasting the Surface of Buildings and Rocks," by John Phillips, Esq. F.G.S., Curator of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, &c. Among the donations to the Museum, laid upon the Table, was an ex- tensive collection of Fossil Corals from Pappenheim and Natheim, presented by his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, F.G.S.; and among those to the Library were the four first livraisons of Adolphe Brongniart's " Fossil Flora," presented by Frederick Page, Esq. F.G.S.; the tenth volume of the Memoirs of the French Academy ; and the Transactions of the Royal Society for the years 1828, 1829, and 1830.
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