46 Reports & Proceedings — Liverpool Geological Society. 



3. December 12, 1916.— J. H. Milton, F.G.S., F.L.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



Mr. H. C. Beasley and Professor J". W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.R.S., 

 were unanimously elected honorary members. Mr. Beasley has been 

 an ordinary member for the last forty-six years, during which period 

 he has been one of its foremost working members, and it has been 

 a great pleasure to his fellow-members to recognize his great services 

 to the Society and to local geology. 



The recent announcement of the gift of a Chair of Geology to 

 Liverpool University by Professor and Mrs. Herdman, as a memorial 

 to their son, was referred to with much interest and sympathy, and 

 the following resolution was approved: "That this Society has 

 learned with much satisfaction of the intended establishment of 

 a Chair of Geology in the Liverpool University, and has special 

 pleasure in the fact that the establishment is due to the generosity 

 of one of its members and past presidents, Professor Herdman, and 

 Mrs. Herdman, by whose action the long-felt need for the due 

 recognition of this subject in the University scheme will at length 

 be satisfied." 



Mr. C. P>. Travis, in a "Note on Terminal Curvature at Billinge 

 Hill", described an interesting example to be seen near the summit 

 of the hill, where the outcropping beds of the Lower Coal-measures 

 are curved over in a remarkable manner by the onward pressure of 

 the Irish Sea ice-sheet invading the district from the west. This 

 section has not previously been described. 



Mr. F. T. Maidwell followed with an account of recent geological 

 rambles about Liverpool, in which he threw fresh light on some old 

 sections. The correlation of the coal-seams in the collieries at 

 Neston, Cheshire, was dealt with at some length, also the little- 

 known outcrop of Permian strata at Skillaw Clough near Bispham. 



VI. — The Wellington, New Zealand, Philosophical Societt 

 (Geological Section). 



The annual meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society 

 (Geological Section) was held last evening, September 20, 1916, at 

 the Dominion Museum. Mr. G. Hogben, C.M.G., F.G.S., presided. 

 The Annual Report stated that during the year seven meetings had 

 been held, with an average attendance of fourteen. The following 

 papers have been read: "A Phase of Shore-line Erosion," by 

 Mr. J. A. Bartrum; "Terminology for Foraminal Development in 

 Terebratuloids," by Mr. S. S. Buckman, F.G.S. ; "The Continental 

 Shelf" and "The Motion of Water in Waves", by Dr. C. A. 

 Cotton, F.G.S. ; " The Geological Occurrence and Origin of 

 Petroleum," by Messrs. W. Gibson and M. Ongley ; " The Structure 

 of the Paparoa Range," by Dr. J. Henderson; "An Artesian Trial 

 Bore at the Westshore, Napier," by Mr. P. W. Holmes; " Notes of 

 a Visit to Marlborough and North Canterbury," by Mr. P. G. 

 Morgan, F.G.S. ; " Stage Names applicable to the Divisions of the 

 Tertiary in New Zealand," by Dr. J. A. Thomson, F.G.S.; "The 

 Volcanic Pocks of Oamaru," by Mr. G. Uttley, F.G.S. 



