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authority wliich will be Becessarj" to satisfy the Auditors, and at the same 

 time for power to realize, if necessar3^ from the permanent investments of 

 the Society such an amount as may be necessary to meet the expenditure, and, 

 as the procedure most advantageoiis to the Society may not be the sale of the 

 actual investment made in 1917, they ask for a general power of realizing an 

 equivalent amount, accompanied by a specific restriction of the purpose to 

 which the sums realized may be applied.' 



The following coinmunication was read : — 



' The Arctic Flora of the Cam Valley, at Barnwell, Cambridge.' 

 Bv Miss Marjorie Elizabetli Jane Chandler. (Communicated by 

 Prof. J. E. Man-, Sc.D., F.R.S., Y.P.a.S.) 



Specimens and microscope-sections were exhibited in illustration 

 of Miss Chandler's paper. 



November 17th, 1920. 



Mr. R. D. Oldham, F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Daniel James Davies. B.Sc, P.C.S., Government Analyst for 

 Newfoundland, St. John's (Newfoundland) ; Joseph Kichard 

 Harrison, Bokaro, via Adra, B.N.R. (India) ; John Prowett Le 

 Grand, Assoc. M.Inst.C.E., 29 Mount Park Crescent, Ealing, W. 5; 

 Ganesh Govinda Narke, M.Sc, Poona, Bombay (India) ; Richard 

 Payne, Mining Department, Education Office, Chesterfield (Derby- 

 shire) ; Agustin Rosas, B.Sc, Peru 958, Mendoza (Argentine 

 Republic) ; Frederick John Somerville, 2 King Street, Liverpool; 

 and Darashaw Nowsherwan Wadia, M.A., B.Sc, Professor of 

 Geology, Prince of Wales College, Jammu, Kashmir (India), were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The appointment of Mr. K. E. Pettitt as Temporary Assistant 

 was announced. 



The foUowins: communications were read : — 



1. ' A Seasonal Variation in the Frequency of Earthquakes.' 

 (Second Communication.) By Richard Dixon Oldham, F.R.S., 

 Pres.G.S. 



2. ' Ecology of Plants from the W^estjDhalian and the Lower 

 Part of the Staffordian Series of Clydach Vale and Gilfach Goch 

 (East Glamorgan).' B}^ David Davies, F.G.S. 



