﻿part 1] PROCEEDINGS OF THE geological society. 



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Proceeds of the Daniel- Pidgeon Fund for the present year to 

 John Kaye Chaelesworth, M.Sc, Ph.D., F.G.S., who proposes 

 to conduct researches in connexion with the Glaciation of Donegal. 



The following communication was read : — 



' The Picrite-Teschenite Sill of Lugar (Ayrshire) and its Differ- 

 entiation.' By George Walter Tyrrell, A.E.C.Sc, F.G.S. 



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



A Bronze Bust of Sir Charles Lyell, presented to the Society 

 by Mrs. J. W. Judd, through Prof. W. W. Watts, was also 

 exhibited. 



May 10th, 1916. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Keir Arthur Campbell, B.A.. Trinity College, Cambridge ; 

 Ednyfed Wynne Hughes, M.Sc, The Grange, Lesness Park, 

 Belvedere ; and Christopher Luke Waite, Newlands, Pontefract 

 Road, Castleford, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' Carboniferous Fossils from Siam.' By F. R. Cowper Reed,. 

 M.A., Sc.D., F.G.S. 



2. ' The Lurgecombe Mill Lamprophyre and its Inclusions.' 

 By Herbert Gladstone Smith, B.Sc, F.G.S. 



Carboniferous fossils from Siam were exhibited by F. R. Cowper 

 Reed, M.A., Sc.D., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Lantern- slides, rock-specimens, and microscope-sections were 

 exhibited by H. G Smith, B.Sc, F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Sapphire-bearing xenoliths, from a Tertiary sill in the Island of 

 Mull, were exhibited on behalf of H.M. Geological Survey. 



May 24th, 1916. 



Dr. Alfbed Haekee, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., V.P.G.S., exhibited De- 

 vonian fish-remains from Australia and the Antarctic 



