﻿part 1] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



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February 23rd, 1916. 



Dr. Alfred Harker, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



William David Purely, 7 Christchurch Terrace, Chelsea, S.W., 

 and George James Roberts, Noyna, Avenue Rise, Bushey 

 (Hertfordshire), were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communication was read : — 



' On the Origin of some River- Gorges in Cornwall and Devon.' 

 By Henry Dewey, F.G.S. (Communicated by permission of the 

 Director of H.M. Geological Survey.) 



Lantern-slides were exhibited in illustration of the above paper. 



A nodule surrounded by a layer of cone-in-cone structure, without 

 any trace of calcite, from Lower Palaeozoic rocks near Machynlleth 

 (Montgomeryshire), was exhibited by Dr. A. Smith Woodward, 

 F.R.S, V.P.G.S. 



March 8th, 1916. 



Dr. Alfred Harker, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Wilfrid Baker, Royal Grammar School, Worcester ; and Arthur 

 G. Pomeroy, M.A., B.Eng., 21 Orange Street, Haymarket, S.W., 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President referred with regret to the death, on March 3rd, 

 of Prof. John Wesley Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., Past President 

 of the Society. He spoke of the value of Prof. Judd's contri- 

 butions to geological science, and of his eminence as a teacher of 

 the science, and stated that the Society was well represented at 

 the funeral. 



Dr. Audrey Strahan, F.R.S., Director of H.M. Geological 

 Survey, exhibited and described briefly a set of specimens from 

 the Western Front, illustrating the character of the rocks 

 in which trenches, tunnels, etc. are being dug. They included 

 specimens from the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations showing 

 remarkable similarity in characters to the contemporaneous forma- 

 tions in Britain. 



