﻿iv PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. I908, 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Faunal Succession in the Carboniferous Limestone 

 (Upper Avonian) of the Midland Area (North Derbyshire and North 

 Staffordshire).' By Thomas Franklin Sibly, B.Sc, F.G.S. 



2. ' Brachiopod Homoeomorphy : " Sjnrifer (jJaber ''.' By S. S. 

 Buckman, F.G.S. 



The following specimens and maps were exhibited : — 



Specimens of Beticidaria showing dental plates and median 

 septum, and Martinia glabra, exhibited by Prof. E. J. Garwood, 

 M.A., Sec.G.S. 



Forty-two specimens of Sjnrifer, exhibited on behalf of H.M. 

 Geological Survey. 



Sheets Nos. 123, 134, 137, & 140 of the Swedish Geological- 

 Survey Map, gQ-^, 1907, presented by the Director of that Survey. 



Three Sheets of the Hungarian Geological-Survey Map, ij^i^, 

 1905, presented by the Director of that Survey. 



December 18th, 1907. 



Sir Akchibald Geikie, K.C.B., D.C.L., Sc.D., Sec.E,.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Thomas Samuel Parrott, 173 Exploration-Buildings, Johannes- 

 burg (Transvaal) ; Edwin Hall Pascoe, M. A. (Cantab.), B.Sc.(Lond.), 

 Assistant- Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, 

 27 Chowringhee, Calcutta (India) ; and Robert Knox Paton, The 

 Evancon Gold-Mining Co., Verrcs, Val d' Aosta (Italy), were 

 elected Fellows ; Commendatore Arturo Issel, Professor of Geology 

 in the University of Genoa, Via Brignole de Ferrari, No. 16, Genoa, 

 was elected a Foreign Member ; and Dr. Armin Baltzer, Professor 

 of Geology in the University of Berne, and Prof. Baron Gerard 

 Jakob de Geer, Stockholm, were elected Foreign Correspondents of 

 the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read ; — 



1. ' Some Recent Discoveries of Palaeolithic Implements.' By 

 Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. 



2. ' On a Deep Channel of Drift at Hitchin (Hertfordshire).' 

 By William Hill, F.G.S. 



