J230 Proceedings. 



Ordinary Meeting, March loth, 1891. 



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. 



Mr. William Brockbank, F.L.S., F.G.S., read the first 

 portion of a paper on " The Occurrence of Spirorbis Hme> 

 stone in the West Cumberland Coal-field, near Whitehaven." 



Mr. Percy F. Kendall, F.G.S., remarked on the 

 peculiar character of the grit from the boring, which, he 

 said, seemed to indicate that the rock had been at some 

 time exposed ; he also considered that the volcanic ash 

 fragments furnished no evidence of contemporary volcanic 

 action, and preferred to regard them as carried pebbles, 

 as are the felspar and quartz. Mr. C. E. DE Rance, F.G.S., 

 considered that Mr. Brockbank's discovery was one of 

 great importance, and noticed that it corroborated to a 

 large extent the opinion long ago held by Professor 

 Harkness of the geology of the Whitehaven district. 



The Rev. T. P. Kirkman, M.A., F.R.S., communicated 

 a paper on "Functions from Groups." 



Mr. Faraday read the concluding portion of a paper 

 entitled "Thoughts on Credit Money, and on the function 

 of the Precious Metals as Distributors of Wealth," of 

 which the first portion was read at the previous meeting. 

 In the discussion which ensued, Mr. ROBERT BARCLAY 

 observed that the philosophic study of money had 

 been strangely neglected by writers on economics, and that 

 much good would be done if scientific men would 

 apply their methods to it. The amount of metallic 



