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drawings in Mr. Woods' Monogi-aph on Cretaceous Lamellibranchs, 

 The plates, moreover, have already had a history ; for the original 

 issue, we are told in the introduction, was lost in the wreck of 

 "Tongariro" off the New Zealand coast in August, 1916. Thev 

 were reprinted from the original blocks, and the Bulletin finally 

 appeared in 1917. 



IX. — Bkief I^oticks. 



1. The Active Yolcanoks of New Zealand. By E. S. Moore. 



Journ. Geol., xxv, p. 693, 1917. 



THE author describes the five active volcanoes of New Zealand 

 lying along the Whakatane fault, and discusses their relation to 

 the later volcanic history and petrographical provinces of the islands. 

 Mt. Tarawera and its rocks, varying from rhyolite to basalt and 

 including pyroclasts, are dealt with in special detail. 



2. Homocline akd Mokocline. By K. A. Daly. Bull. Geol. 



Soc. Am., vol. xxvii, p. 89, 1916. 

 rilHE term homocline is suggested as a general name for a mass of 

 JL bedded rocks all of which dip in the same direction. The term 

 monocline is thereby restricted in accordance with the definition 

 first formulated by Sir A. Geikie. 



I. — Geological Society oe London. 

 March 20, 1918.— G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



The President referred with sorrow to the death, on 

 March 18, of Dr. George Jennings Hinde, E.li.S., who had 

 served the Society for many years as a Member of the 

 Council. The President also recorded the loss of Captain 

 Lewis Moysey, M.B., E.A.M.C, who was on H.M. Hospital 

 Ship Glenart Castle, torpedoed in the Bristol Channel on 

 February 26. It was stated that the Council had sent 

 resolutions of condolence to the relatives of both these Fellows. 



The President announced that the Council had awarded the 

 Proceeds of the Daniel-Pidgeon Fund for the present year to James 

 Arthur Butterfield, M.Sc, F.G.S., who proposes to conduct 

 researches in connexion with the Conglomerates and Sandstones 

 underlying the Carboniferous Limestone Series in the North-West of 

 England. 



Dr. W. F. Smeeth delivered a lecture on the Geology of Southern 

 India, with particular reference to the Archaean Bocks of the 

 Mysore State. With the aid of a map, prepared by the Geological 

 Survey of India, the Lecturer pointed out the general cliaracter of 



