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the "gault" of Great Britain, but of course, its age was 

 entirely different. The term "green sand" bad been 

 applied by Professor Hutton to tertiary rocks in New- 

 Zealand. He did not use tbe terms as indicating the age of 

 the rocks, but simply their mineral character. Professor 

 Prestwich's text-book on geology, treated the subject of the 

 admission of sea water to the land, and he expressed without 

 any doubt the opinion, that under such circumstances as 

 those described in the paper, the sea water did not percolate 

 inland at all, but was absolutely excluded from the strata by 

 tlie presence of fresh water in the beds. 



Thursday, September Wtlc. 



Tbe President in the chair. 



The minutes of the proceedings of the previous meeting 

 were read and confirmed. 



The following were nominated for election : — Members — 

 C. N. Hake. C. G. W. Officer. Associates— N. T. M. Wilsmore, 

 Elderson Smith, Mrs. Elderson Smith. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and declai-ed to 

 be duly elected :— J. Talbot Brett, M.D., G. A. Syme, M.B., 

 Lenthal Oldfield, F.R.C.S., as members, and Heinrich Best 

 and E. G. Rosenblum, M.B., as associates. 



The Hon. Librarian reported that, since the last meeting, 

 77 publications had been received from various parts of the 

 world. A number of volumes had been bound, the Council 

 with its customary liberality having voted £40 for that 

 purpose. A catalogue had been pi-epared, which would 

 afford great assistance to those wishing to consult the 

 library, and after going through it, he would put it on the 

 table. 



Professor Orme Masson read a postcript to the paper last 

 read by him. 



Mr. Marks said that the papers read b}^ Professor Masson 

 could not be adequately appreciated until printed and 

 published, as they required an amount of study before 

 the value of the results obtained could be apparent. 



A Note on the Shell-bearing Mollusca obtained in the Port 

 Philliji Biological Survey, by Professor Ralph Tate, of 



