Reports and Proceedings — Geological Society of London. 5(53 

 BiDPOETS -A-IsTID PBOCEEDIUGS. 



Geological Society of London. 



November 4, 1896. — Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., President, in 



the Chair. 



The President referred to the loss which the Society had sustained 

 by the decease of Professor A. H. Green, M. A., F.R.S., who had served 

 for some years on the Council, and was Vice-President at the time 

 of his death. His wide knowledge of science, his perfect uprightness 

 of character, and his genial good-nature were greatly valued by all 

 those who had the privilege of coming into contact with him. 



The President further announced that the Council had that 

 afternoon passed the following resolution : — 



"The Council of the Geological Society are deeply sensible of 

 the loss which they have sustained in the death of Professor 

 Green, M.A.,F.R.S., one of their Members, and a Vice-President 

 of the Society. In placing on record their acknowledgment of the 

 services which he has often rendered to the Society, they deshe 

 to express their heartfelt sympathy with Mrs. Green and the 

 family in their sudden bereavement." 



The President announced that Lady Prestwich, in fulfilment 

 of the terms of a bequest of her late husband, had offered to 

 the Society 260 bound volumes of geological tracts from his 

 Library. Also, that a sum of £800 had been bequeathed to 

 the Society by Sir Joseph Prestwich, the interest to be applied 

 to the triennial award of a medal and fund : this bequest to take 

 effect subsequent to the decease of Lady Prestwich. 



The Secretary announced that the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., 

 F.G.S., had presented to the Society a framed platinotype portrait 

 of himself ; that Capt. G. E. A. Ross, F.G.S., had presented 

 eight lithographic portraits of distinguished geologists ; and that 

 Miss Hawkins had presented a portrait of her late father, Waterhouse 

 Hawkins, Esq. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Additional Note on the Sections near the Summit of the 

 Furka Pass (Switzerland)." By T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 V.P.G.S., Professor of Geology in University College, London. 



The author, during a visit to Switzerland in 1895, had taken the 

 opportunity of completing the examination of the sections on the 

 western side of the Furka Pass, and of glancing again at those 

 previously studied. The white, sometimes slightly quartzose or 

 micaceous marhle which, as already described, crosses the summit 

 of the Pass, descends towards the west, but forms a cliff for some 

 little distance by the roadside until it is crossed by the latter, and 

 disappears under debris and turf. Above it is a greyish limestone, 

 at most only subcrystalline in aspect, and retaining traces of 

 organisms, as already noticed. Higher up is a small outcrop of 



