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than ill average specimens of the recent Glutton, but presents all 

 the characters of the species as described in detail by the author. 



Discussion. 



The President remarked on the interest of the particular spe- 

 cimen, the exact horizon of the occurrence of which had been so 

 accurately fixed. 



Mr. GuNN stated that he had frequently found gnawed bones of 

 various mammals in the forest-bed, and he laid such a gnawed spe- 

 cimen of a deer's bone before the Societ}". He also remarked upon 

 the complication of the series of strata known as the " Porest-bed 

 series." 



4, " A Eeview of the Family Diastoporida), for the purpose of 

 Classification." By George Eobert Vine, Esq. Communicated by 

 Prof. Duncan, P.K.S., E.G.S. 



5. " On Annelid Jaws from the Wenlock and Ludlow Formations 

 of the West of England." By G. J. Hinde, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Gold in quartz from Kova Scotia, and " Cats-eyes " from Ceylon 

 and South xifrica, exhibited by Prof. J. Tennant, F.G.S. 



A cast of the jaw of Gulo luscus, exhibited by Mr. Newton, and 

 specimens of Annelid jaws, exhibited by Mr. Hinde, in illustration of 

 their papers, 



A new form of Microscope, adapted for petrological research, was 

 exhibited by Mr. Watson, of Pall Mall. 



May 26, 1880. 



Eobeet Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Prof. Frederick Guthrie, F.E.S., Science Schools^ South Ken- 

 sington, S.W. ; Eudolf Hsensler, Esq., Ph.D., Western College, Har- 

 rogate ; James Hulme, Esq., Bury Hall, Wolverley, Worcestershire ; 

 William Jolly, Esq., F.E.S.E., Inverness; Charles Myhill, Esq., 

 Curzon School House, May Fair, W. ; and Alfred George Savile, 

 Esq., B.A., Grosvenor School, Nottingham, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. " The Pro-Carboniferous Eocks of Charnwcod Forest." — Part 

 III. Conclusion. By the Eev. E. Hill,- M.A., F.G.S., and Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, M.A., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



