xxxii Proceedings. [April 23rd, igoy. 



Mr. C. E. Stromeyer and Mr. H. B. Knowles were 

 appointed Scrutineers of the balloting papers. 



The following members were elected officers of the Society 

 and members of the Council for the ensuing year : — 



President- H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S. 



Vice-Presidents: Sir William H. Bailey, M.I.Mech.E. ; 

 Horace Lamb, LL.D., D.Sc, F.R.S. ; Francis Jones, M.Sc, 

 F.R.S.E. ; W. E. Hoyle, D.Sc, FR.S.E. 



Secretaries : F. W. Gamble, D.Sc. ; R. L. Taylor, F.C.S., 

 F.I.C 



Treasurer : Arthur McDougall, B.Sc. 



Librarian: R. S. Hutton, D.Sc. 



Other Members of the Council : Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S. ; 

 Charles Bailey, M.Sc, F.L.S. ; Thomas Thorp, F.R.A.S. ; 

 Charles Oldham; Ernest F. Lange, F.C.S.; William J. 

 Pope, F.R.S., F.C.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 23rd, 1907. . 



The President, Sir William H. Bailey, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



Miss M. C. Stopes, D.Sc, Ph.D., made a communication 

 as to the coal mine now working in Sutherlandshire, which is 

 of mesozoic age and thus unlike the vast majority of coal seams 

 in Europe, which are of palaeozoic age. She reported that a 

 number of genera of plants found in the beds associated with 

 the deposits afford evidence that the Flora of Sutherland at 

 that time closely corresponded with the Inferior Oolite Flora of 

 the Yorkshire coast. The coal itself appears to have been 

 deposited in an estuary and rapidly accumulated deposits with 

 marine shells from its roof. 



