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remnant of a hanging valley can be seen. Flat-topped ridges and 

 isolated Mils trending parallel to the foliation of the gneiss are 

 characteristic of the country around Sanoyei and Boporo. There is 

 a striking absence of late deposits of old gravels and sands. 



In the southern part of the district there are indications of a series 

 of garnetiferous gneisses, tremolite schists, kyanite schists or gneisses, 

 garnet graphite gneisses, etc., associated with others of granitic type, 

 the latter being apparently free from microcline and containing a pleo- 

 chroic pyroxene. These rocks are replaced in the north by biotite 

 gneisses and hornblende schists, which have an approximate and 

 singularly constant east and west (magnetic) strike in their foliation. 

 Microcline is common. These old cr3^stalline rocks are cut by an 

 extensive series of basalts and ophitic dolerites, resembling so closely 

 the post-Cretaceous dykes of Southern l^igeria that it is difficult to 

 avoid the conclusion that they are of the same age. 



Z.— April \st, 1908.— Professor W. J. SoUas, Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



A Special General Meeting was held at 7.45 p.m., before the 



Ordinary Meeting, for the purpose of considering and voting upon the 



following motion proposed by Mr. E. A. Martin, and duly seconded : — 



" That the Council be requested to take the necessary steps, at an early date, 



in order to allow of the admission of women to full Fellowship of tlie Geological 



Society of London." 



After discussion, the following amendment proposed by Dr. A. 

 Smith Woodward, and seconded by Mr. H. A. Allen, was voted upon, 

 and passed by 43 to 34 : — 



" That it is desirable that women should be admitted as Fellows of the 

 Society, assuming that this can be done under the present Charter." 



The foregoing amendment having then been declared a substantive 

 motion, the following amendment to it was proposed by Mr. H. B. 

 Woodward, and seconded by Mr. 0. T. Jones : — 



" That a poll of all the Fellows of the Society resident in the United Kingdom 

 be taken, to ascertain whether a majority is in favour of admitting women to 

 the Society, and; if so, whether as Fellows or as Associates." 



This was agreed to by 54 to 24, and was declared a substantive 

 motion by show of hands. 



An Associate is defined in the proposed New Section of the Byelaws, submitted 

 to the Special General Meeting held on May 15th, 1907, see Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc, vol. Ixiii, Proc. p. Ixxiii. 



Ordinauy Meeting. 

 The President announced that the Council had adopted the following 

 resolution : — 



" The Council of tbe Geological Society has beard with mucb regret of the 

 deatb of Dr. Henry Clifton Sorby, who served on the Council for many years, 

 and occupied the Presidential Chair during the Sessions 1878-80. . The Council 

 desires to place on record its high appreciation of the invaluable services 

 rendered by Dr. Sorby to the Society and to the Science of Geology." 



