Vol. 70.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Xlil 



(New Zealand) ; and Sydney Wilkinson. B.A., Lecturer on Geo- 

 graphy in the Normal College at Bangor, Hightown, Liversidge 

 (Yorkshire), were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List o£ Donations to the Library was read. 



Prof. E. Hull, in exhibiting a block of Lower Lias from the 

 junction with the Carboniferous, said that this block was sent from 

 No. 3 pit of Dover Colliery, by the Manager, Mr. John Kiers. It 

 seemed to him (the speaker) a specimen of peculiar interest, since 

 it had been taken froni the bottom of the Lias at its junction with 

 the Coal Measures, at a depth of 1161 feet below the surface. It 

 consisted of hard, bluish, brecciated limestone, angular pebbles 

 of stone being cemented together, and contained numerous fossils 

 of Liassic species — generally in a fragmentary condition. It had 

 been called by the miners a ' piece of the old shore ' — an appro- 

 priate name ; as it was evidently made up of fragments of stone 

 which had been knocked about on the beach of the Liassic sea 

 when being deposited on a shore of submerged Coal Measures. 



Dr. F. L. Kitchin had informed him that this lowest Lias at 

 Dover has been shown to belong to a position in the upper part 

 of the Capricornus Zone ; it has yielded Ammonites maculatus 

 Young & Bird. 1 Dr. Kitchin had further remarked that the block 

 now exhibited contains fossils which are, for the most part, not in 

 a state favourable for determination. The belemnites are tightly 

 embedded in the hard matrix, and those at the surface are broken 

 across in various directions. He was unable to identify' them. 

 Of lamellibranch remains he could only name JJnicardium car- 

 divides Phillips. There are also present some Bhynchonellids, but 

 Dr. Kitchin has not been able to determine them. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Geology of the 

 Kent Coalfield.' 2 Bv Dr. E. A. Newell Arber, M.A.* F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. 



2. ' On the Fossil Floras of the Kent Coalfield.' Bv Dr. E. A. 

 Newell Arber, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



In addition to the exhibit described above, fossil plants from 

 the Kent Coalfield and a specimen of coal from the Dover Collierv 

 were exhibited by Dr. E. A. Newell Arber, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., 

 in illustration of his papers. 



1 See G. W. Lamplugh & F. L. Kitchin. ' Mesozoic Rocks in some of the 

 Coal Explorations in Kent ' Mem. Geol. Surv. 1911, p. 143. 



2 Withdrawn by permission of the Council. 



