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February 25, 1880. 



lioBEET Etheeidge, Esq., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Joseph H. Cowham, Esq., Westminster Training College, S.W. ; 

 William Alexander Eorbes, Esq., B.A., 14 Ashley Place, S.W. ; M. 

 H. Gray, Esq., Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo ; and Charles Thomas 

 Whitmell, Esq., M.A., B.Sc. (Lond.), E.C.S., 51 Havelock Street, 

 Sheffield, were elected Eellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that a communication had been received 

 from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, stating that the 

 Academy proprosed to celebrate its 100th Anniversary on May 26, 

 1880, on which occasion the Academy hoped that one or more 

 Delegates from the Geological Society of London might be present. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Geology of Anglesey." By Prof. T. M'Kenny Hughes, 

 M.A., E.G.S. 



2. "Notes on the Strata exposed in laying out the Oxford 

 Sewage-Earm at Sandford-on-Thames." By E. S. Cobbold, Esq., 

 E.G.S., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E. 



3. ^' A Eeview and Description of the various Species of British 

 Upper-Silurian Eenestellidse." By G. ^^\ Shrubsole, Esq., E.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Quartz and quartz ornaments from Japan, and Agates, exhibited 

 by Prof. James Tennant, E.G.S. ; and Specimens exhibited by 

 Prof. T. M^Kenny Hughes and G. W. Shrubsole, Esq., in illustration 

 of their papers. 



March 10, 1880. 



PoBEET Etheeidge, Esq., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



John AYard, Esq., Lenoxvale, Belfast, was elected a Fellow ; and 

 Prof. F. von Hochstetter, of Vienna, and Prof. A. Eenard, of 

 Brussels, Foreign Correspondents of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communication was read : — 



1. "On the Geological Eolations of the Eocks of the South of 

 Ireland to those of J^orth Devon and other British and Continental 

 Districts.'' By Professor Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.E.S., E.G.S., 

 Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. 



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