﻿il PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. I9IO, 



November 17th, 1909. 



Prof. W. J. Sollas, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



James Alexander Haddon Armstrong, Dumisa, via Esperanza 

 (Natal) ; Robert Alexander Farquharson, B.A., St John's College, 

 Oxford ; George Arthur Green, Civil Engineer, P.W.D., Bombay 

 (India) ; and John H. Wylie, 6 Watch Bell Street, Rye (Sussex), 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. < The Geology of Nyasaland.' By Arthur R. Andrew, F.G.S., 

 and T. Esmond Geoffrey Bailey, B.A., F.G.S. With a Description 

 of the Fossil Flora, by E. A. Newell Arber, M.A., F.G.S. ; Notes on 

 the Non-Marine Fossil Mollusea, by Richard Bullen Newton, F.G.S. ; 

 and a Description of the Fish-Scales of Colobodus, etc., by Ramsay 

 Heatley Traquair, M.D., F.B.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' The Faunal Succession of the Upper Bernician.' ! By Stanley 

 Smith, M.Sc, F.G.S. 



3. ' Notes on the Dyke at Crookdene (Northumberland), and its 

 Relations to the Collywell, Tynemouth, and Morpeth Dykes.' By 

 Miss M. K. Heslop, M.Sc, and Dr. J. A. Smythe. (Communicated 

 by Prof. G. A. Lebour, M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S.) 



The following specimens, lantern-slides, etc. were exhibited : — 



Fossils from Nyasaland and lantern-slides, exhibited by A. R. 

 Andrew, F.G.S., and T. E. G. Bailey, B.A., F.G.S., in illustration 

 of their paper and appendices. 



Specimens from the Upper Bernician of Northumberland, ex- 

 hibited by Stanley Smith, M.Sc, F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens, rock-sections, and lantern-slides, exhibited by Prof. G. 

 A. Lebour, M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S., in illustration of the paper on the 

 Crookdene Dyke by Miss M. K. Heslop, M.Sc, and Dr. J. A. 

 Smythe. 



The type-scale of Acrolepisf?) africana, discovered by the late 

 Prof. Henry Drummond, exhibited by Dr. R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., 

 F.G.S. 



A photographic transcript, made and exhibited by F. Edward 

 Norris, F.G.S., of a record of an earthquake on November 10th, 

 given by a newly erected seismograph at Guildford. 



Crystals of gypsum formed in the sands of Xarachungul Lake, 

 Guriew District (Uralsk Prov.), near the north-eastern corner of 

 the Caspian Sea, exhibited by W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., F.C.S. 



1 Withdrawn by permission of the Council. 



