xcviii PEOCEEDii^as of the geological society, [vol. Ixxiii, 



The following communication was read : — 



' The Carboniferous Limestone bordering the Leicestershire 

 Coalfield.' By Leonard Miles Parsons, D.I.C., B.Sc, F.G.S. 



Specimens and microscopic slides of dolomite, and fossils from 

 the Carboniferous rocks of the Leicestershire Coalfield, were exhi- 

 bited b}^ L. M. Parsons, D.I.C., B.Sc, F.G.S., in illustrntion of his 

 paper. 



The following maps were also exhibited : — Geological Survey'' of 

 Scotland : 1-inch Map. Sheets 36 — Kilmartin, and 60 — Rhum, 

 1917, presented by the Director of H.M. Geological Survey. 



March 28th, 1917. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Guthrie Allsebrook, Moorland, Shinfield, near Reading ; Thomas 

 William Brown, B.Sc, A.M.S.E., 54 Brookvale Street, Belfast ; 

 and Scoresby Routledge, M.A., 9 Cadogan Mansions, Sloane Square, 

 S.W. 1, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that the Council had awarded the 

 Proceeds of the Daniel-Pidgeon Fund for the present year to 

 Arthur Holmes, D.I.C, B.Sc, F.G.S., who proposes to conduct 

 researches in connexion with the Geology of the Dartmoor Border, 

 around Okehampton and Belstone. 



The follo\ving communication was read: — 



'The Carboniferous Limestone Series on the South-Eastern 

 Margin of the South Wales Coalfield.' Bv Frank Dixey, M.Sc, 

 F.G.S., and Thomas Franklin Sibly, D.Sc, F.G.S., University 

 College of South Wales & Monmouthshire. Cardiff. 



Lantern-slides, rock-specimens and microscope-slides of rocks from 

 the Carboniferous Limestone Series on the South-Eastern Margin 

 of the South Wales Coalfield were exhibited b}^ F. Dixey, M.Sc, 

 F.G.S., and T. Franklin Sibly, D.Sc, F.G.S., in illustration of 

 their paper. 



The follomng map was also exhibited : — Geological Survey of 

 England & Wales — -l-inch Map of Shefiield (Barnsley), temporary 

 edition, 1917, presented by the Director of H.M. Geological Survey. 



