iv PEOCEEDnrGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. 1 899, 



Richard Stevenson JsTorraan, Esq., 17 Cowley Hill Lane, St. Helen's 

 (Lancashire) ; Edward John Power, Esq., 8 Gledhow Gardens, 

 S.W. ; Prof. H. Narayana Ran, M.A., 11 Sydoji Street, Triplicane, 

 Madras ; Henry John Rofe, Esq., M.A., 8 Victoria Street, S.W. ; 

 Ernest Willington Skeats, Esq., B.Sc. (Load.), Assoc. R.C.S., 

 17 Elthiron Road, Walham Green, S.W. ; George Thomas, Esq., 

 32 Stuart Street, Aberdare ; Charles Wardingley, Esq., 1 Durnlea, 

 Littleborough, near Manchester ; Mr. Willem van Waterschoot 

 van der Gracht, 280 Heerengracht, Amsterdam (Holland) ; and 

 Harold George Watson, Esq., The Beeches, Aldridge, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Mr. J. G. Wood commented on a specimen of sound oak, which 

 he exhibited and proposed to present to the Society. The oak was 

 found in sinking the cylinders of Chepstow Bridge (Great Western 

 Railway) over the River Wye, under about 40 feet of blue clay, 

 sand, etc., and 15 feet below low-water mark. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Geological Structure of the Southern Malvern s and of 

 the adjacent District to the West.' By Prof. T. T. Groom, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.G.S. 



2. ' The Permian Conglomerates of the Lower Severn Basin.' 

 By W. Wickham Xing, Esq., F.G.S. 



In addition to the specimen mentioned above, the following were 

 exhibited : — 



Specimens exhibited by Prof. T. T. Groom, M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S., 



in illustration of his paper. 



Fossils and Rock-specimens exhibited by W. Wickham King, Esq., 

 F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Sheets 73, 86, 89, 107, and 150 of the Map of the Geological 

 Survey of Saxony, presented by the Director of that Survey. 



December 21st, 1898. 



W. Whitakee, B.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



William George Crawford Hughes, Esq., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., 

 Haslemere, Brincliffe, Sheffield; Walter Maxwell, Ph.D., Honolulu 

 (Hawaii) ; A. C. Pilkington,Esq.,B.A., The Hazels, Preseot (Lanca- 

 shire) ; and H. H. Thomas, Esq., B.A., Roxborough Park, Harrow, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society, 



