240 Correspondence — Mr. A. B. Hunt. Miscellaneous. 



BUDLEIGH SALTERTON PEBBLES. 



Sir, — Eeferring to Professor Bonney's interesting discovery' of 

 schorlaceons rocks in the Budleigh Salterton pebble bed, which bed 

 after all is but a new Red Conglomerate, it should be borne in 

 mind that schorlaceous fragments are abundant in the breccias near 

 Teignmouth, and elsewhere in the Eed Rocks of Devonshire. It 

 would be well to compare them, in order to ascertain, if possible, 

 whether they have a common origin. Schorlaceous rocks, as is well 

 known, vary greatly. 



With respect to the suggestion now again brought forward by 

 Professor Bonney that' the Red Sandstones of Devonshire evidence 

 currents from the westward,'^ the fact should not be overlooked that 

 the mica schists found in the Bigbury Bay conglomerate, to the 

 northward and westward of the Bolt Head, indicate transport from 

 the south and east, harmonizes well with the commonly accepted 

 view that many of the Budleigh Salterton fossiliferous quartzites are 

 of southern derivation. A. R. Hunt. 



IMIIS OS X. Xj-A-IsTEOTTS - 



" Geological Society of South Africa." 

 A largely attended meeting was held in the Chamber of Mines 

 Board-Room, Johannesburg, Transvaal, on February 4:th, 1895, for 

 the purpose of forming a Geological Society. Dr. Hugh Exton, 

 F.G.S., occupied the chair and addressed the meeting. The following 

 resolutions were then moved and seconded, and carried unanimously : 

 (1) that a Society be formed to be called "The Geological Society of 

 South Africa"; (2) that Mr. Lionel Phillips be the first Honorary 

 President; (3) that Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., F.G.S., and 

 Dr. W. Guybon Atherstone, F.G.S. , be Honorary Vice-Presidents; 



(4) that Dr. Hugh Exton, F.G.S., be the first President, and Messrs. 

 A. R. Sawyer, F.G.S., and John Ballot, the first Vice-Presidents. 



(5) The Executive Council was then formed as follows : Messrs. 

 C. Aburrow, Ed. Button, A. R. Boucher, J. S. Curtis, J. A. Chalmers, 

 S. Farrar, F.G.S., H. D. Griffiths, A. Goerz, L. Grahame, J. Dampier 

 Greene, J. H. Johns, E. C. Jones, E. J. B. Knox, C. Wilson Moore, 

 W. M. Phillips, T. Reunert, E. Kemper Voss, Peregrine 0. Wilson, 

 and F. White. (6) It was unanimously resolved that Mr. David 

 Draper, F.G.S., be appointed Secretary of the Society. It was 

 resolved that those gentlemen who signed their names at that 

 meeting be the fii'st members ; that the list remain open till 28th 

 February, after which election to be by ballot. 



The greatest enthusiasm prevails, and the Secretary fully anticipates 

 that 300 members will join by the end of the month. All com- 

 munications for the Society should be addressed to David Draper, 

 Esq., F.G.S., P. 0. Box 450, Johannesburg, Transvaal. 



1 Geological Magazine, February, 1895, p. 77. \_Memo. — "All sliowed 

 tourmaline, so two of them were sliced. Both consisted mainly of granular quartz 

 and tourmaline." Hence schorlaceous. — A. R. H.] 



2 Ibid. p. 79. 



