part 1] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY". XCvii 



The following communication was read by Mr. R. 1). Oldham, 

 F.R.S., in the absence of the Author: — 



' The Earlv History of the Indus, Brahmaputra and Ganges.' 

 By Lieut. Edwin Hall Pascoe, I.A.R.O., M.A., D.Sc., F.G.S., 



Superintendent, Geological Survey of India. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., exhibited, 

 and made some comments on, Fish-remains from the Upper 

 Devonian (Pickwell-Down Sandstones) of Woolacombe Bay (North 

 Devon), discovered by Mr. Inkerman Rogers, and noticed by him 

 in the ' Geological Maaazine ' for March 1919. 



March 26th, 1919. 



Mr. G. W. Lamplhg-h, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Robert Campbell, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.E., Lecturer on Petrology 

 in the University of Edinburgh, 7 Muirend Avenue, Juniper Green 

 (Midlothian) ; Capt. James" Alfred Goodwin, R.E., A.R.S.M., 

 Highstead, Sittingbourne (Kent) ; Herbert William Greenwood, 

 Trinity House, Macclesfield (Cheshire) ; Frederick Thomas Maid- 

 Avell, 103 Greenwa} r Road, Runcorn ; and George Horace Plymen, 

 B.Sc, 33 Herbert Gardens, Harlesden, N.W. 10, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



At G p.m. a Special General Meeting was held, in order to 

 consider the following Resolution of Council : — ■ 



' That it is desirable to admit Women as Fellows of the Society.' 



The President said : — 



It will be within the recollection of most of the Fellows that 

 the question of the admission of Women to candidature for the 

 Fellowship of the Society has been raised on more than one 

 occasion in the past. It was considered in 1889 and 1901, and 

 again, more systematically in 1908-1909, when a poll of the 

 Fellows was taken and three Special General Meetings were held, 

 with inconclusive results. 



It is generally recognized that the course of events since these 

 dates has materially changed the situation. Women have been 

 welcomed to our meetings as visitors, and we have had many 

 examples of their cmalifications for Fellowship in the excellent 

 papers which they have from time to time contributed to the 

 Society. The value of these papers has been appreciated by all 



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