part 2] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. CI 



might give a bias to younger geologists ^vhich iniglit cloud the 

 truth, this being one of Dr. John Ball's objections to Prof. Gre- 

 gory's original paper. 



Dr. Hume also was glad to note the President's remarks, and 

 thought that the idea of ' tension regions,' as advocated by 

 Dr. Evans on this occasion, was one to be approached with great 

 caution, as it required very full experimental evidence. 



June 22nd, 1921. 



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

 . ill- the Chair. 



William Sawney Bisat, 1 Selwyn Avenue, North Ferriby, Hull ; 

 Arthur William Blanford, A.P.S.M., Kolar Goldfield Prospecting 

 Department, c/o Grindlay & Co., Bombay ; Charles John Philip 

 Cave, J.P., M.A., F.E.A.S., Stoner Hill, Petersfield (Hampshire) ; 

 and John Jerom Hartley, M.Eng., B.Sc, M.Inst.C.E., Church 

 Walk, Ambleside (Westmorland), were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Names of certain Fellows of the Society were read out for 

 the hrst time, in conformity with the Bye Laws, Sect. VI, Art. 5, 

 in consequence of the Non-Payment of the arrears of their Annual 

 Contributions. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Jurassic of New Zealand.' By Charles Taylor 

 Trechmann, D.Sc, F.G-.S. With an Appendix on Ammonites 

 from New Zealand. By Leonard Frank Spatli, M.Sc, F.G.S. 



2. 'The Norite of Sierra Leone.' By Frank Dixey, M.Sc, 

 F.G.S., Government Geologist of Sierra Leone. 



Specimens and lantern-slides were exhibited in illustration of 

 the papers by Dr. C. T. Trechmann and Mr. F. Dixey. 



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