part 1] PK0CEEDING8 OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. ix 



Specimens of graptolites from the Inambari district of Peru, 

 collected by Capt. J. A. Douglas, were exhibited in illustration of 

 Prof. C. Lapworth's paper. 



A fragment of garnet-pyroxene rock, enclosing an octahedral 

 crystal of diamond, was exhibited by Capt. H. M. Luttman- 

 Johnson, R.E., F.Gr.S. This specimen was found in the Eoberts- 

 Vic tor Mine (Orange Free State), and formed part of the larger 

 piece of rock described by Dr. G. S. Corstorphine.^ 



January 24th, 1917. 



Dr. Alfked Harkee, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Thomas Landell -Mills, Stud.Inst.M.M., Lieut. R.E., Duke of 

 York's Headquarters, Chelsea, S.W. ; and John Watson, M.A., 

 Bracondale, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge, were elected Fellows 

 of the Society, 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Dr. Aubrey Steaha^^ F.R.S., Director of H.M. Geological 

 Survey, addressing the President and Fellows, said that in 1914 a 

 proposal was made to subscribe for a bust of Sir Archibald 

 Geikie which would be presented to the Board of Education for 

 preservation in the Museum of Practical Geology. Notwith- 

 standing that war broke out shortly after the scheme Avas 

 launched, the proposal was warmly supported b}^ geologists at 

 home and abroad, and among others by Fellows of the Society. 

 A marble bust, executed by Prof. E. Lanteri, of the Royal 

 College of Art, was presented to the Board on March 14th, 1916, 

 and placed in the Museum. At the same time a replica was 

 presented to Sir Archibald, who has since made it a gift to the 

 University of Edinburgh, where he was the first Murchison Pro- 

 fessor. The past and j^resent staff of the Geological Survey and 

 Museum, thinking that a copy of the original model of the bust 

 would be a suitable gift to the Geological Societ}^ of London, 

 in whose affairs Sir Archibald had taken so prominent a part, had 

 caused a cast to be made, and Dr. Strahan, on their behalf, 

 offered it for the acceptance of the Society. 



The President, referring to Sir Archibald Geikie's long and 

 intimate connexion with the Society, gratefully accepted the gift 

 on behalf of the Fellows. 



' ' The Occurrence in Kimberlite of Garnet-Pyroxene Nodules carrying 

 Diamonds ' Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa, vol. x (1907) pp. 65-68. 



