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practically absent in the Antarctic, but to differences of structure 

 and density, marking the seasons. 



The rugged surfaces of the islets are probably due to frost- 

 splintering and marine action, and do not imply that they have 

 suffered no ice-erosion. 



The drift deposits are scanty, because there is so little flat land 

 exposed on which they could accumulate. But the sea-bottom 

 carries a great accumulation of clay with boulders for a long 

 distance northwards from the present ice-front. 



November 20th, 1918. 



Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Walter Clifford Tyndale, O.B.E., M.Inst.C.E., Swallowfield, 

 St. Stephen's Road, West Ealing, W. 13 ; and Frank McLeod 

 Wasse, Eastcourt, Sidcup (Kent), Avere elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The names of certain Fellows of the Society were read out for 

 the first time, in conformity with the Bye-Laws, Sect. VI, Art. 5, 

 in consequence of the Non-Payment of the Arrears of their 

 Contributions. 



The President referred with regret to the loss that the Society 

 had sustained by the death of Miss Maude Seymour, on November 

 6th, 1918, after a very short illness. He alluded to the high value 

 of her services as an Assistant in the Library, and to her energetic 

 assistance in the preparation of the ' List of Geological Literature.' 



The following communication was read : — 



* The Geology of the Meldon Valleys, near Okehampton, on the 

 Northern Verge of Dartmoor.' Bv Richard Hansford Worth, 

 M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S. 



December 4th, 1918. 



Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Ralph du Boulay Evans, B.A., H.M. Geological Survey, 

 28 Jermyn Street, S.W.I; Reginald Henry Goode, M.A., 



