iv PROCEEDINGS 0¥ THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Fob. I904, 



December 16th, 1903. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, D.C.L., D.Sc, Sec.R.S., Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



Edward William Handcock, Esq., 32 Quarry Hill, Tonbridge ; 

 John Flesher Newsom, Ph.D., Associate-Professor of Geology & 

 Mining in the Stanford University, California (U.S.A.) ; and 

 Edward Payne, Esq., Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland 

 Avenue, W.C., were elected Fellows ; and Prof. Anton Koch, of 

 Budapest, and Prof. Albrecht Penck, of Vienna, were elected 

 Foreign Members of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Igneous Rocks associated "with the Carboniferous Lime- 

 stone of the Bristol District.' By Prof. Conwy Lloyd Morgan, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., & Prof. Sidney Hugh Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S. 



2. * A Description of some Ilhsetic Sections in the Bristol District, 

 with Considerations on the Mode of Deposition of the Hhsetic Series.' l 

 By A. Rendle Short, Esq., B.Sc, M.B., B.S. (Communicated by 

 Prof. S. H. Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S.) 



The following specimens and maps were exhibited : — 



Rock-Specimens, Microscope-Sections, Photographs and Lantern- 

 Slides, exhibited by Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 & Prof. S. H. Reynolds, M. A., F.G.S., in illustration of their paper. 



Specimens exhibited in illustration of the paper by A. Rendle 

 Short, Esq., B.Sc, M.B., B.S. 



Copies of three new colour-printed Geological-Survey maps : — 

 New Series, Sheet 248, Pontypridd (Drift) by A. Strahan, etc. ; 

 and Sheet 263, Cardiff (Solid & Drift) by A. Strahan, etc., presented 

 by the Director of 'that Survey. 



January 6th, 1904. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, D.C.L., D.Sc, Sec.R.S., Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



Reginald Francis Duke, Esq., A.M.I.M.E., ' Banyana,' Little- 

 hampton ; William Norman-Bott, Ph.D., F.C.S., Royal Societies' 

 Club, St. James's Street, S.W. ; and Hugh Whittall, Esq., Mining 

 Engineer, Constantinople, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



[ l Read under the title of ' The Rhsetic Beds of England.'] 



