viii PROCEEDIN'GS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOdETT. [^ay 1 898. 



February 2nd, 1898. 

 Dr. Hexet Hicks, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



William Howard Smith, Esq., Carlisle Villa, Dalmore Eoad, West 

 Dulwich, S.E.: SamuelHazzledine Warren. Esq., 9 Cambridge Gate, 

 Eegent's Park, X.W. ; Charles Lindsay Temple. Esq., Brazil, and 

 Heath Brow, Hampstead, X.W, : Elliott Moore Cairnes, Esq., 

 ' RiToli,' Barkly Street, St. Kilda. Victoria (Australia) ; and Ceorge 

 Plunkett Chaplin, Esq., B.Sc, 124 Breakspeares Road, Brockley, 

 S.E., were elected Eellows of the Society. 



Tbe List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The PEZSiDr.>'i announced that Dr. Charles Barrois, Secretary of 

 the Organizing Committee of the Vlllth International Geological 

 Congress, which will be held in Paris in 1900, would shortly come to 

 London to invite the Geological Society to the Congress, and to consult 

 the Fellows with regard to the proposed excursions and the subjects 

 of discussion. Dr. Barrois hoped to be present at the Annual General 

 Meeting of the Society on February 18th. and to avail himself of 

 that opportunity of personal intercourse with the Fellows. 



The following communications were read: — 



1. • Contributions to the Glacial Geology of Spitsbergen.' By 

 E. J. Garwood, Esq.. M.A., F.G.S., and Dr. J. W. Gregory. 

 F.G.S. 



2. ' On a Quartz-rock in the Carboniferous Limestone of Derby- 

 shire.'* By H. H. Amold-Bemrose, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



The following specimens, etc. were exhibited : — 



Specimens and Photographs, exhibited by E. J. Garwood, Esq., 

 M.A., F.G.S., and Dr. J. W. Gregory, F.G.S., in illustration of their 

 paper. 



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

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

 paper. 



Geological Map of the Districts of Elerksdorp, Potchefstroom, 

 and Kru2:ersdorp. illustrating the Position and Extent of the 

 Sedimentary Deposits, and the probable Continuation of the 

 principal Conglomerate-Beds. Scale : about 4 miles to 1 inch. 1896. 

 Drawn up and presented by D. Draper, Esq., F.G.S. 



