Cviii PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I904. 



April 13th, 1904. 



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



Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, of Nesv York (U.S.A.), was elected 

 a Foreign Member : and Dr. Erich Dagobert von Drygalski, of the 

 University of Berlin, and Dr. Henry S. Washington, of Locust, 

 New Jersey (U.S.A.), were elected Foreign Correspondents of the 

 Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Discovery of Human Eemains under the Stalagmite-Floor 

 cf Gouglrs Cavern, near Cheddar.' By Henry Nathaniel Davies, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



2. ' The History of Volcanic Action in the Phlegraean Fields.' 

 By Prof. Giuseppe De Lorenzo, of the Royal University of Naples. 

 (Communicated by Sir Archibald Geikie, Sc.D., Sec.R.S., V.P.G.S.) 



The following specimens and maps were exhibited : — 



Specimens and Flint-Implements from Gough's Cavern, near 

 Cheddar, exhibited by H. X. Davies, Esq., F.G.S. , in illustration of 

 his paper. 



Sheets 120 & 133 of the Geological Survey-Map of Saxony, 

 presented by the Director of that Survey. 



April 27th, 1904. 

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



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Prof. W. W. Watts, in exhibiting the platinotype-prints issued 

 by the Geological Photographs Committee of the British Association, 

 said that these constituted the third issue of the first series. These 

 photographs would be in the hands of subscribers within the next 

 few days. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On a New Species of Eoscorpius from the Upper Carboniferous 

 Rocks of Lancashire.' By Walter Baldwin, Esq., F.G.S., and William 

 Henry Sutcliffe, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. ' The Genesis of the Gold-Deposits of Barkerville (British 

 Columbia) aud the Vicinity/ By Austin J. K. Atkin, Esq. (Com- 

 municated by the Secretary.) 



