﻿Vol. 64,] TROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. CXXXl 



rocks, exhibited by Dr. Theodore (Iroom, M.A., F.G.S., & Philip 

 Lake, M.A., F.G.S., in illustration of their paper. 



Five cartoons representing restorations of Vesuvius at different 

 times during- its growth, exhibited by Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 

 M.A., F.G.S. 



June ;ird, 1908. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Ernest Dickson, 99 Bloomfield Gardens, Bath, and 37 Endell 

 Street, London, W.C. ; and Basil Francis Newall Macrorie, Geo- 

 logist to the Burma Oil Company, P.O. Box 181, Rangoon (Burma), 

 were 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 Con- 

 tributions. 



The Peesibent announced that the Council had passed the 

 following resolutions : — 



' The Council of the Geological Society desires to express the profound 

 regret with which it has heard of the death of Sir John Evans, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S, Sir John Evans served the Society for many years in the Council, 

 occupied the Presidential Chair from 1874 to 187(5 (being the Senior 

 President living), and subsequently discharged the duties of Foreign 

 Secretary for twelve years. Geological Science has gained much from 

 the researches of Sir John Evans, and the place which he has occupied 

 iu the Society and the Council will be hard to fill,' 



' The Council also desire to express its regret at the loss of Prof. 

 Albert de Lapparent, who had been a Foreign Correspondent and Member 

 of the Society since 1887, and who, as recently as last year, attended the 

 celebration of the Society's Centenary and contributed no little to the 

 proceedings on that occasion.' 



The Peesident announced that, in accordance with a requisition 

 ' signed by five or more Fellows ' of the Society (Bye-Laws, Sect. XI, 

 Art. 4), a Special General Meeting would be held at the Society's 

 Apartments, on Wednesday, June 17th, 1908, at 7.45 p.m., in 

 order to consider the following resolution, which would be pro- 

 posed by Dr. J. Malcolm Maclaren and seconded by Mr. A. Gibb 

 Maitland : — 



' I'hat Fellows non-resident in the United Kingdom be 

 invited to express an opinion concerning the Admission of Women to 

 Fellowship or Associateship of the Geological Society of London.' 



The following communication was read : — 



' On the Fossiliferous Rocks of the Souther ji Half of the Tort- 

 worth Inlier.' By Frederick llichard Cowper Heed, M.A., F.G.S., 

 and Prof. Sidney Hugh lleynolds, M.A., F.G.S. 



