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surface in the year 1874, by Mr. J. Garbutt, exhibited by 

 A. E. Salter, Esq., B.Sc., E.G.S. 



Geological Survey of Scotland : 1-inch Map, Sheet 19 (Bowmore), 

 presented by the Director-General of H.M. Geological Survey. 



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May 24th, 1899. 



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



James B-onald Eccles, Esq., B.A., King's College, Cambridge, and 

 E. R. Matthews, Esq., C.E., Surveyor's Office, Bridlington Quay, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President called attention to the issue of Yol. III. of 

 Hutton's ' Theory of the Earth,' and said that the thanks of the 

 Fellows were due to Sir A. Geikie for having edited and annotated 

 most carefully this work. The volume was printed from a pre- 

 viously unpublished manuscript which had been for many years in the 

 possession of the Society : its contents were extremely interesting, 

 and it supplemented the previous volumes by the inclusion of an 

 index to the whole of the work, prepared by Sir A. Geikie. 



Prof. Seeley exhibited a cast from a footprint obtained by Mr. H. 

 C. Beasley from the Trias at Stourton. The impression is about 

 1| inch long, and nearly as wide. The cast has been treated by 

 oblique illumination, so as to display its osteological structure by 

 means of the shadows thus thrown. All the claws are directed 

 outward, as in a burrowing animal. The form of the foot resembles 

 that of a monotreme mammal rather than that of any existing reptile. 

 There appears to be a slender pre-pollex including three bones. The 

 only other example of this structure in the Trias is in the theriodont 

 reptile Theriodesmus, in which it is less definite. This character 

 may add to the interest of other footprints from Stourton, which in 

 the form of the foot approximate to anomodont reptiles from the 

 Karoo Beds of Cape Colony. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On the Distal End of a Mammalian Humerus from Tonbridge 

 (Hemiomus major): By Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' On Evidence of a Bird from the Wealden Beds of Ansty 

 Lane, near Cuckfield.' By Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



3. 'Notes on the Ehyolites of the Hauraki Goldfields (New 

 Zealand).' By J. Park, Esq., F.G.S., and F. Eutley, Esq., F.G.S. : 

 with Analyses by P. Holland, Esq., F.I.C., F.C.S. 



4. ' On the Progressive Metamorphism of some Dalradian 

 Sediments in the Region of Loch Awe.' By J. B. Hill, Esq., R.N. 

 (Communicated by Sir A. Geikie, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.) 



