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Geological Society of London. 



June 10, 1891.— Sir Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.E.S., President, 



in the Chair. 



A Special General Meeting was held at 745 p.m., before the 

 Ordinary General Meeting, at which the following resolution was 

 proposed by Dr. Evans, seconded by Mr. Bauerman, and carried 

 unanimously : — That the Society approve of the recommendation of 

 Council that Mr. Isaac Charlton, the House Steward, on his retire- 

 ment, after fifty years' service, be granted a pension of £70 per 

 annum for life. 



Before the commencement of the general business, Prof. Blake 

 rose, on behalf of those present at the meeting, to congratulate the 

 President on the honour that it had pleased Her Majesty to confer 

 upon him. No one who knew him could fail to appreciate how 

 thoroughly it was deserved ; and the Geological Society would 

 doubtless feel also the honour conferred on their science in the 

 person of their President and the Head of the Geological Survey of 

 the United Kingdom. 



The Pkesident referred to the services of the late Dr. Duncan, 

 and suggested that in the name of the Society a message of cordial 

 sympathy should be sent to Mrs. Duncan on the great loss which 

 had befallen her. This proposal was approved of by the Fellows 

 present ; and the Secretary was requested to communicate with 

 Mrs. Duncan. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Note on some Recent Excavations in the Wellington College 

 district." By the Kev. A. Irving, B.A., D.Sc, F.G.S. 



This paper furnishes new facts of Bagshot stratigraphy obtained 

 from open sections since the author's last paper was i*ead on Nov. 

 12th, 1890. The whole sequence of the beds, as given in the 

 published section of the College Well, has now been verified at their 

 respective outcrops; percentages of clay in the beds laid open in 

 excavations in March last along the critical portion of the ground 

 are given as results of mechanical analyses of samples of them ; and 

 the northerly attenuation of the green-earth series and of the quartz- 

 sand series is reduced to a question of mere measurement, for which 

 the requisite data ai'e now to hand. 



The author claims to have demonstrated that the mapping of the 

 Geological Survey contradicts itself; that later workers in adopting 

 this as the basis of their work along the S.E. Eailway have fallen 

 into serious error ; and that a complete contradiction is given by the 

 facts to the adverse criticisms ofi'ered on his corrected section along 

 the railway, which was exhibited in November last, and is repro- 

 duced for the present paper. 



2. "Notes on some Post-Tertiary Marine Deposits on the South 

 Coast of England." By Alfred Bell, Esq. Communicated by R. 

 Etheridge, Esq., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



