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H. L. Bowman, Dr. A. Hutcliinson ; Treasurer, Sir William P. Beale, 

 Bart., K.C., M.P. ; General Secretary, Dr. G. T. Prior, F.R.S. ; 

 Foreign Secretary, Professor W. "W. Watts, F.R.S. ; Editor of the 

 Journal, Mr. L. J. Spencer ; Ordinary Members of Council, Mr. F. H. 

 Butler, Mr. J. P. de Castro, Mr. B. Kitto, Professor A. Liversidge, 

 F.R.S., Dr. J. J. Harris Teali, F.R.S., Mr. F. N. Ashcroft, Professor 

 H. Hilton, Mr. A. Russell, Mr. W. Campbell Smith, Dr. J. W. Evans, 

 Dr. F. H. Hatch, Mr. J. A. Howe. 



lY. — LiVEKPOOL Geological SociETr. 

 The second meeting of the Session was held at the Royal Institution, 

 Colquitt Street, Liverpool, on Tuesday, November 10, 1914, W. A. 

 Whitehead, Esq., B.Sc, President, in the chair. A collection of 

 specimens of Triassic sandstone was exhibited from the recent 

 excavations in Brownlow Hill, and ably described by Miss S. E. 

 Morton. Mr. C. H. Cox, B.Sc, Head Master of UphoUand Grammar 

 School, read a paper upon " Ordnance Survey Maps, their Meaning 

 and Use", illustrated by a well-selected series of maps comprising 

 the Highlands of Scotland, the English Lake District, West Cheshire, 

 and the North Downs. Messrs. A. Harris and T. A. Jones exhibited 

 a series of lantern slides of natural scenery in illustration of some of 

 the points described in Mr. Cox's address. A cordial vote of thanks 

 Avas accorded to Mr. Cox for his interesting paper. 



V. — Zoological Society of London. 

 October 27, 1914.— Professor E. A. Miuchin, M.A., F.R.S., Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. T, H. Withers, F.G.S., described a new Cirripede based on 

 a number of disconnected valves from the Chalk of Hertfordshire. 

 Except for three valves referred to a new species of Scalpellum {sensu 

 lato), the whole of the material belongs to a remarkable new asym- 

 metrical Cirripede which differs from Verruca in the more primitive 

 structure of the valves, in the presence of two lower lateral valves 

 on the rostro-carinal side, and in the absence of interlocking ribs. 

 This species undoubtedly represents the ancestral type from which 

 has arisen the recent group of asymmetrical sessile Cirripedes 

 forming the family Verrucidse, and in its structure clearly 

 shows its origin from the symmetrical pedunculate Cirripedes of the 

 family Pollicipedidse. It presents further evidence that the sessile 

 condition was arrived at independently on several different lines of 

 descent during the evolution of the Cirripedia. 



OBia?Tj.A.i?,"3r. 



WILLIAM HILL, V.P.G.S. 



BoKN August 2, 1849. Died November 8, 1914. 



The death of William Hill, on November 8, 1914, came as 



a shock to many of his friends, who had little idea that his cheery 



countenance hid a mind liable to tits of depression. Born at Hitchin, 



