PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1879-80. 



jN"ovember 5, 1879. 



Henet Clifton Soebt, Esq., LL.D., P.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Henry Bruce Armstrong, Esq., 25 Saville Eow, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On the probable Temperature of the Primordial Ocean of our 

 Globe." By Robert MaUet, Esq., E.E.S., E.G.S. 



2. " On the Fish-remains found in the Cannel Coal in the Middle 

 Coal-measures of the West Riding of Yorkshire, with the Description 

 of some new Species." By James "W. Davis, Esq., F.G.S., &c. 



3. " On the Skull of Argillornis longvpennis, Owen." By Prof. 

 R. Owen, C.B., F.E.S., F.G.S., &c. 



November 19, 1879. 



Henet Clifton Soeby, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Edmund Knowles Binns, Esq., 216 Heavygate Road, Sheffield; 

 and John Dawson, Esq., 11 Somerset Place, Bath, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Supplementary Note on the Vertebrae of Ornifhopsis, Seeley 

 (=Eucamerotus, Hulke)." By J. W. Hulke, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 

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