Vi PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. 1 899 



Capt. A. W. Stiffe, in exhibiting a fossil Cardium (?) from the 

 beach at the foot of the cliffs of Ormara (Makran Coast), made the 

 following remarks : — The specimen on the table has been kindly- 

 lent to me by Mr. Ffinch, Director of the Government Indo- 

 European Telegraphs. The peninsula of Ormara, whence the shell 

 comes, is composed of a mass of flat-topped hills about 10 miles in 

 length ; it is about 1200 feet high at its western end, sloping down 

 to about 400 feet at its eastern end — flat on the top, and endiug on 

 all sides in cliffs. The rocks are chiefly clay, with a thin conformable 

 capping of shelly breccia 20 to 50 feet thick. The fossils in the clay 

 are difficult to find, and probably are generally enclosed in nodules 

 of the clay somewhat altered, as in this specimen. The fossil now 

 exhibited was picked up on the sandy beach near the foot of the cliffs, 

 which are naturally undergoing rapid denudation. The formation 

 was considered to be of Miocene age, according to a paper read by 

 me before this Society in 1874, as determined by Mr. Etheridge. 

 I should be glad to learn whether this fossil supports that view of the 

 age. Nearly all the coast in question for many hundreds of miles 

 is of similar formation : the strata are as a rule slightly inclined 

 only, and of fantastic outline. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' Geology of the Ashbourne & Buxton Branch of the London 

 & North-Western Railway. — Ashbourne to Crakelow.' By H. H. 

 Arnold-Bemrose, Esq., M.A., E.G.S. 



2. ' The Oceanic Deposits of Trinidad (W. I.).' By Prof. J. B. 

 Harrison, M.A., E.G.S., and A. J. Jukes-Browne, Esq., B.A., 



E.G.S. 



In addition to the specimen described above, the following 

 were exhibited : — 



E,ock-specimens, Microscope-sections, Lantern-slides, and Photo- 

 graphs, exhibited by H. H. Arnold-Bemrose, Esq., M.A., E.G.S., 

 in illustration of his paper. 



Rock-specimens exhibited by Prof. J. B, Harrison, M.A., E.G.S., 

 and A. J. Jukes-Browne, Esq., B.A., E.G.S., in illustration of their 

 paper. 



January 18th, 1899. 

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



Edmund Dunlop Puzey, Esq., B.A., B.E., Secunderabad, Deccan 

 (India) ; and Charles Bertie Wedd, Esq., B.A., Geological Survey, 

 28 Jermyn Street, S.W., were elected Eellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



