Vol. 60.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. CV 



February 24th, 1904. 



J. E. Marr, Sc.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Arthur Hutchinson, M.A., Ph.D., F.C.S., Demonstrator in Mine- 

 ralogy in the University of Cambridge, Fellow & Tutor of Pembroke 

 College, Cambridge, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



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The President read the following resolution of the Council, which 

 had been forwarded to Mrs. McMahon : — 



' That the Council desire to place on record their regret at the death of 

 General C. A. McMaiion, F.R.S., who for so many years was one of their 

 colleagues, and took so active an interest in the affairs of the Society ; and the 

 Council further wish to express their sincere sympathy with Mrs. McMahon 

 and the family in their bereavement.' 



The President also announced that Prof. T. G. Bonnet, Sc.D., 

 F.B.S., and Mr.H. W. Monckion, F.L.S., would represent the Society 

 at General McMahon's funeral on the following day. 



The President stated that Prof. Lap-worth had written, thanking 

 the Fellows for their kind expression of sympathy with him in his 

 illness, and for the telegram despatched to him in the course of the 

 Annual General Meeting:. 



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The following communications were read : — ■ 



1. ' Eocene and Later Formations surrounding the Dardanelles.' 

 By Lieut. -Col. Thomas English, late R.E., F.G.S. 



2. ' The Derby Earthquakes of March 24th and May 3rd, 1903.' 

 By Dr. Charles Davison, F.G.S. 



The following specimens, etc. were exhibited : — 



Rocks and Fossils from the Dardanelles, and a Model of the sur- 

 rounding Country, exhibited by Lieut.-Col. T. English, F.G.S., in 

 illustration of his paper. 



At 7.30 p.m., before the Ordinary Meeting, a Special General 

 Meeting was held, for the purpose of taking into consideration the 

 following alterations in the Bye -Laws proposed on behalf of 

 the Council : — 



A. That Bye-Laws Sect. XIV. Art. 4, and Sect. XXI, Art. 6 be repealed. 



B. (1) That Bye-Laws, Sect. XII, Art. 3, and Sect. XII, Art. 4, 1° be repealed. 

 (2) That the following new Bye-Law be enacted, to be called Sect. IX, 



Art. 12 a, to come between Arts. 12 & 13 of Sect. IX : ' Persuns not 



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