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The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Carboniferous Rocks at Loughshinny (County Dublin), 

 with an Account of the Paunal Succession and Correlation.' Bv 

 Charles Alfred Matley, D.Sc, F.G.S., and Arthur Yaughan, B.A";, 

 D.Sc, F.G.S. 



2. 'A Note on the Petrology and Physiography of Western 

 Liberia (West Coast of Africa).' By John Parkinson, M.A., F.G.S. 



The following specimens and lantern-slides were exhibited : — 



Specimens of Carboniferous corals, brachiopods, etc., and lantern- 

 slides, exhibited by Dr. C. A. Matley, F.G.S., and Dr. A. Yaughan, 

 B.A., F.G.S., in illustration of their paper. 



Rock-specimens, microscope-sections, and lantern-slides, exhibited 

 by J. Parkinson, M.A., F.G.S. , in illustration of his paper. 



April 1st, 1908. 



Prof. W. J. SoLLAs, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



William H. C. Geikie, Mining Engineer, c/o The Borneo Company, 

 Kuching, Sarawak ; Granville Poole, B.Sc, ToUington House, 

 Amblecote, Stourbridge; and Alfred A. Roberts, Ph.D., Regent 

 House, Regent Street, W., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that the Council had adopted the 

 following resolution : — 



• The Council of the Geological Society has heard with much regret of 

 the death of Dr. Henry Clifton Sorby, who served on the Council for 

 many years, and occupied the Presidential Chair during the Sessions 

 1878-80. The Council desires to place on record its high appreciation 

 of the invaluable services rendered by Dr. Sorby to the Society and to the 

 Science of Geology.' 



A Special General Meeting was held at 7.45 p.m., before the 

 Ordinary Meeting, for the purpose of considering and voting upon 

 the following motion, proposed by Mr. E. A. Martin, and seconded 

 by Mr. W. H. Shrubsole : 



' That the Council be requested to take the necessary steps, at an 

 early date, in order to allow of the admission of women to full Fellowship 

 of the Geological Society of London,' 



