PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



SESSION 1897-98. 



November 3rd, 1897. 

 Dr. Henet Hicks, P.E.S., President, in the Chair 



Capt. the Hon. William Grimston, E.IS"., Sopwell, St. Alban's, 

 was elected a Eellow ; Dr. Oscar Fraas, of Stuttgart ; M. Louis 

 Dollo, of Brussels ; and M. Emmanuel de Margerie, of Paris, were 

 elected Poreign Correspondents of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Peesident read the following letter, received from the 

 Secretary of State for the Home Department, in acknowledgment 

 of the congratulatory address submitted to Her Majesty the Queen, 

 on the occasion of the Sixtieth Anniversary of her Accession, by the 

 President, Council, and Fellows of the Society : — 



Whitehall, 15th July, 1897. 

 Gentlemen, — 



I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful 

 Address of the President, Council, and Fellows of the Geological Society 

 of London, on the occasion of Her Majesty attaining the Sixtieth Year of 

 Her Eeign, and I have to inform you that Her Majesty was pleased to receive 

 the same very graciously. 



I have the honour to be, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 The Secretaries M. W. Eidley. 



of the Geological Society 

 of London. 



The Seceetaey announced that Lady Pkestwich had presented to 

 the Society a half-length portrait in oils of the late Sir Joseph 

 Prestwich, painted by Mr. W. E. Miller. 



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