12 Proceedings. 



General Meeting, November 4th, 1890. 



Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



Mr. Edward Sidebotham, Bowdon ; Mr. Maurice 

 Julius Langdon, Ph.D. (Munich), Manchester ; Mr. 

 Walter Taylor, A.M.I.C.E., Flixton ; and Mr. R. 

 Hammersley Heenan, Manchester, were elected ordinary 

 members of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 4th, 1890. 



Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., President in the 



Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of 

 the books upon the table. 



The President referred to the ^loss sustained by the 

 Society through the death of Mr. JAMES Platt Holden, 

 who was elected a member in 1846. 



Mr. William Brockbank, F.L.S., F.G.S.,^ exhibited 

 Estheria Minuta, var. Brodieana of Prof Rupert Jones, 

 F.R.S., discovered by Mr. C. E. de Ranee, F.G.S., in the 

 Lower Keuper sandstone of Alderley Edge, and read the 

 following note on the subject : — 



"The occurrence of this fossil is new to the Triassic 

 sandstones of Britain in Cheshire. These have been 

 largely exposed of late in the cuttings of the new Ship 

 Canal and the railway at Fallowfield, but at Fallowfield a 

 diligent search was made for fossils, without result, in the 



