IxX PHOCEEDiyGS 01 THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, [vol. IxiYui, 



Miocene, while the formation in which DesmostyJus remains have 

 been fomid in California is Middle Miocene. 



One of the teeth shown in the photographs was found in 1916 

 in the face of the sandstone-cli:ffi west of Mnir Creek, Sooke Bay, 

 Southern Vancouver Island (^B.C). It was determined by the 

 late Lawi-ence M. Lambe as the first right upper molar of 

 DesmostyJus liesperus Marsh, and is now in the British Columbia 

 Provincial Museum at Victoria. The dimensions of this tooth 

 are : Lens^th = 31 mm. ; Avidth = 21 mm. ; heisrht of columns 

 = 17 mm. ; diameter of the largest colimin = 15 mm. ; diameter 

 of small colmnn = 10 mm. This tooth is considerably worn. 

 The second tooth was found in the same locality last year by 

 the Rev. Eobert Connell. Its dimensions are : Length = 17 mm. ; 

 width = 31 mm. ; diameter of the largest column = 21 mm. ; dia- 

 meter of the smallest column = 17 mm. 



The following communication was read : — 



' On the Geological Importance of the Primitive Reptilian Fauna 

 in the Upper Cretaceous of Hungaiy." By Baron Francis Xopcsa, 

 For.Corresp.Gr.S. 



March 22nd, 1922. 



Prof. A. C. Sewaed, Sc.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chaii'. 



Leo Arthm- Cotton, M.A., D.Sc, Assistant Professor of Geology 

 in the University of Sydney (X.S.W.) ; Ivan Sidney Double, Lec- 

 turer in Geology in the L'niversity of Liverpool, 10 Trinity Road, 

 Bootle ; Edith Goodyear, B.Sc, Senior Assistant in the Geological 

 Department of L'niversity College, Loudon ; Sidney Hall, B.Sc, 

 311 BrownhiU Road, Catford, S.E^G; Isabel Ellie Knaggs, 76 South 

 Hill Park, X.AV. 3 ; Cyi'us Henry Perkins, B.A., Belcomi:. St. Albans 

 (Hei-tfordshii-e) ; Helen Marguerite TVood, M.Sc, 5 Hiiides Road, 

 Harrow-on-the-Hill ; and Leonard Langdale AVrathaU, B.Sc, 

 A.R.S.M., 37 Gwendwr Road, West Kensington, W. 11. were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Peesldext read an appeal to collectors to purchase speci- 

 mens of rocks and minerals on behalf of the Cornish Miners' 

 Relief Fund, and du-ected that the notice embodying the necessary 

 jDarticulars should be affixed to the board in the Society's hall. 



The Peesidexi announced that the Council had awarded the 



