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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OE 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  [Feb. 
  1 
  89 
  7, 
  

  

  The 
  List 
  of 
  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  was 
  read. 
  

  

  The 
  Secretary 
  announced 
  that 
  the 
  Eev. 
  P. 
  B. 
  Broeie, 
  M.A., 
  

   F.G.S., 
  had 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  a 
  framed 
  platinotype 
  portrait 
  

   of 
  himself 
  ; 
  that 
  Capt. 
  G. 
  E. 
  A. 
  Ross, 
  F.G.S., 
  had 
  presented 
  eight 
  

   lithographic 
  portraits 
  of 
  distinguished 
  geologists 
  ; 
  and 
  that 
  Miss 
  

   Hawkins 
  had 
  presented 
  a 
  p 
  ortrait 
  of 
  her 
  late 
  father, 
  Waterhouse 
  

   Hawkins, 
  Esq. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  communications 
  were 
  read 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  'Additional 
  Note 
  on 
  the 
  Sections 
  near 
  the 
  Summit 
  of 
  the 
  

   Eurka 
  Pass 
  (Switzerland).' 
  By 
  T. 
  G. 
  Bonney, 
  D.Sc., 
  LL.D., 
  F.R.S., 
  

   Y.P.G.S., 
  Professor 
  of 
  Geology 
  in 
  University 
  College, 
  London. 
  

  

  2. 
  ' 
  Geological 
  and 
  Petrographical 
  Studies 
  of 
  the 
  Sudbury 
  Nickel 
  

   District 
  (Canada).' 
  By 
  T. 
  L. 
  Walker, 
  Ph.D., 
  M.A. 
  (Communicated 
  

   by 
  J. 
  J. 
  H. 
  Teall, 
  Esq., 
  M.A., 
  F.R.S., 
  Sec.G.S.) 
  

  

  3. 
  ' 
  On 
  the 
  Distribution 
  in 
  Space 
  of 
  the 
  Accessory 
  Shocks 
  of 
  the 
  

   Great 
  Japanese 
  Earthquake 
  of 
  1891.' 
  By 
  Charles 
  Davison, 
  Sc.D., 
  

   E.G.S. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  specimens, 
  etc., 
  were 
  exhibited 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Rock-specimens 
  and 
  microscopic 
  sections, 
  exhibited 
  by 
  Prof. 
  

   T. 
  G. 
  Bonney, 
  D.Sc, 
  LL.D., 
  E.R.S., 
  T.P.G.S., 
  in 
  illustration 
  of 
  his 
  

   paper. 
  

  

  Photographs 
  taken 
  by 
  C. 
  E. 
  Monckton, 
  Esq., 
  exhibited 
  by 
  Horace 
  

   W. 
  Monckton, 
  Esq., 
  E.L.S., 
  E.G.S. 
  

  

  Working 
  Maps 
  of 
  the 
  Secondary 
  Rocks 
  of 
  Cutch, 
  scale 
  : 
  1 
  inch 
  = 
  

   1 
  mile, 
  exhibited 
  by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  J. 
  E. 
  Blake, 
  E.G.S. 
  

  

  Sapphires 
  and 
  other 
  precious 
  stones 
  from 
  Withersfield, 
  Central 
  

   Queensland, 
  exhibited 
  by 
  Prof. 
  R. 
  Tate, 
  E.L.S., 
  E.G.S., 
  on 
  behalf 
  

   of 
  Thos. 
  Parker, 
  Esq., 
  of 
  Rockhampton. 
  

  

  November 
  18th, 
  1896. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Henry 
  Hicks, 
  F.R.S., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  Robert 
  Brown, 
  Esq., 
  Desheyhur, 
  via 
  Barrakur, 
  E.I.R., 
  Bengal, 
  

   India 
  ; 
  and 
  Douglas 
  Stuart 
  Spens 
  Stewart, 
  Esq., 
  B.Sc, 
  Victoria 
  

   University, 
  Manchester, 
  were 
  elected 
  Fellows 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  