XCll PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Aug. 1 899. 



June 21st, 1899. 



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



Robert Arthur Buddicom, Esq., B.A., Ticklerton Court, Church 

 Stretton (Shropshire) ; Daniel Carmichael, Esq., E.R.C.S., Gosforth, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne ; and James Tonge, Jun., Esq., 24 Hampton 

 Eoad, Southport, were elected Fellows ; Senhor J. F. N". Delgado, 

 of Lisbon ; and M. Ernest Van den Broeck, of Brussels, were elected 

 Foreign Members ; Prof. C. E. Beecher, of Yale University, New 

 Haven (Conn.), U.S.A. ; and Herr Gerhard Holm, of Stockholm, 

 were elected Foreign Correspondents of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following names of Fellows of the Society were read out for 

 the second time, in conformity with the Bye-Laws, Sect. YI, Art. 5, 

 in consequence of the non-payment of their Arrears of Contri- 

 butions : — E. de Arteaqa ; Dr. W. J. Coombes ; S. Faenfield ; 

 Eev. C. F. B. Hawxins ; H. E. Huest ; Dr. J. C. Eoss ; E. Eussell ; 

 H. K, Spaek ; E. L. Tapscott ; and A. H. S. White. 



The following communications were read: — 



1. ' On the Agglomerates and Tuffs in the Carboniferous Lime- 

 stone Series of Congleton Edge.' By Walcot Gibson, Esq., F.G.S., 

 and Dr. Wheelton Hind, F.E.C.S., F.G.S. With an Appendix on 

 the Petrography of the Igneous Eocks by H. H. Arnold-Bemrose, 

 Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



2. ' On some Ironstone Fossil Nodules of the Lias.' By E. A. 

 Walford, Esq., F.G.S. 



3. ' Additional Notes on the Glacial Phenomena of Spitsbergen.' 

 By E. J. Garwood, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



4. 'Additional Notes on the Vertebrate Fauna of the Eock- 

 Fissure at Ightham (Kent).' By E. T. Newton, Esq., F.E.S., 

 F.G.S. 



The following specimens and photographs were exhibited : — 



Eock-specimens, exhibited by Dr. Wheelton Hind, F.E.C.S., 

 F.G.S., in illustration of his and Mr. Gibson's paper. 



Eock-specimens, Microscope-sections, and Photographs, exhibited 

 by H. H. Arnold-Bemrose, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., in illustration of his 

 Appendix to the above-mentioned paper. 



Liassic Ironstone Fossil Nodules, exhibited by E. A. Walford, 

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



A series of Photographs and Lantern-slides exhibited by E. J. 

 Garwood, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Palaeolithic Core, Implements, and Flakes from the Thames 

 Valley Drift at High Holborn and Throgmorton Street, London, 

 exhibited by S, H. Warren, Esq., F.G.S. 



