﻿Vol. 66. \ PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



January 12th, 1910. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following Fellows of the Society, nominated by the Council, 

 were elected Auditors of the Society's Accounts for the preceding 

 year : — George William Young and John Hopkinson, F.L.S. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'On the Igneous and Associated Sedimentary Rocks of the 

 Glensaul District (County Galway).' By Charles Irving Gardiner, 

 M.A., F.G.S., and Prof. Sidney Hugh Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S. ; 

 with a Palaeontological Appendix by Frederick Richard Cowper 

 Reed, M.A., F.G.S. 



2. ' The Gneisses and Altered Dacites of the Dandenong District 

 (Victoria), and their Relations to the Dacites and to the Grano- 

 Diorites of the Area.' By Prof. Ernest Willington Skeats, D.Sc, 

 F.G.S. 



3. ' Recent Improvements in Rock-Section Cutting Apparatus.' ' 

 By H. J. Grayson. (Communicated by Prof. E. W. Skeats, D.Sc, 

 F.G.S.) 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



A series of rock-specimens, graptolites, trilobites, and other 

 fossils, from the Glensaul district, exhibited by C. I. Gardiner, 

 M.A., F.G.S., Prof. S. H. Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S., and F. R. C. Reed, 

 M.A., F.G.S., in illustration of their paper. 



Rock-specimens, microscope-sections, and photographs, exhibited 

 by Prof. E. W. Skeats, D.Sc, F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Alkali and other rocks from the Macedon district (Yictoria) ; and 

 obsidianites from Yictoria, South Australia, and Western Australia, 

 exhibited by Prof. E. W. Skeats, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



Photographs and lantern-slides illustrating the paper by H. J. 

 Grayson, exhibited by Prof. E. W. Skeats, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



Horizontal seismogram of January 1st, 1910, taken at Guildford, 

 and exhibited by F. Edward Norris, F.G.S. 



A stone-implement, from the collection of P. Anderson, Lerwick 

 (Shetland), exhibited by James Cross, F.G.S. 



Withdrawn by permission of the Council. 



