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There were retained of the old Council : — 



The President, 

 The Lord Bishop of Carlisle, 

 Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. 

 William Elford Leach, M. D. 

 Alex. Macleay, Esq. 

 Thomas Marsham, Esq. 

 William George Maton, M. D. 

 Daniel Moore, Esq. F.R.S. 

 Joseph Sabine, Esq. F.R.S. 

 Thomas Smith, Esq. 



The five following Fellows were elected into the Council : — 



Thomas Marquis of Bath. 



William Kent, Esq. 



Rev. Thomas Rackett. 



Thomas Thomson, M. D. F. R. S. 



John Walker, Esq. 



Since last anniversary the Society has lost nine Fellows and five 

 Foreign Members by death ; and eleven new Fellows have been 

 elected into the Society. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



April 21. — A communication from Thomas Hare, Esq. entitled 

 Observations on Basalt, with eight illustrative drawings, was read. 

 In the opinion of the author of this paper, basalt is a crystallized 

 substance, formed by deposition from an aqueous solution ; its real 

 form is spheroidal, and the columns which it usually presents result 

 from those spheroids being heaped one on another, and from the 

 lateral compression to which each heap is subjected by contiguous 

 and surrounding heaps. 



May 5. — A paper by the Rev. W. Buckiand, M. G. S. entitled 

 a Description of an insulated group of Rocks of Slate and Green- 

 stone, situated on the east side of Appleby, between Melmerby and 

 Murton, in Cumberland, was read. 



The group of rocks here described runs nearly N. and S., and 

 consists principally of slate and green-stune, the slate lying for the 

 most part on tlie east of the green-stone. The order of the super- 

 position of these two rocks appears to be very indeterminate ; some- 

 times they abut abruptly against each other; sometimes the slate is 

 uppermost, but most generally the green-stone. A few thin beds 

 of blackish transition lime-stone occur in the slate ; aiul in some 

 places tiie slate is intersected by dykes of compact flesh-red felspar 

 M'ith scales of mica. In another place a more perfectly characterized 

 granite makes its appearance surrounded by green-stone ; but 

 whether this is a dyke, or a projecting mass of the sulijacent rock, 

 it is not easy to ascertain. 



