P.EOCEEDIJSTGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 7 



December 18, 1889. 



W. T. Bla?[fohd, LL.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Charles Aburrow, Esq., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., Johannesburg, South 

 Africa ; Henry A. Allen, Esq., Assistant Palseontologist to the Geo- 

 logical Survey, Museum, Jermyn Street, S.W. ; Thomas Bennett, 

 Esq., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., Cheshunt Local Board, Cheshunt, Hert- 

 fordshire; and E. Lethbridge Tapscott, Esq., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., 

 41 Parkfield Road, Liverpool, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Occurrence of the Genus Girvanella, and remarks on 

 Oolitic Structure." By E. Wethered, Esq., E.G.8. 



2. " On the Eolation of the Westleton Beds or ' Pebbly Sands ' of 

 Suffolk to those of Norfolk, and on their extension inland, with some 

 observations on the Period of the final Elevation and Denudation of 

 the Weald and of the Thames Valley."— Part II. By Prof. Joseph 

 Prestwich, M.A., D.C.L., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Microscopic specimens and photographs, exhibited by E. Wethered, 

 Esq., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Block of Quartz from the Plateau Gravel, 3| miles W.S.W. of 

 Ascot Station, Berkshire (400 ft. above O.D.), exhibited by H. W. 

 Monckton, Esq., F.G.S. 



Book of photographs of Baku and the Caucasus, exhibited bv 

 W. F. Hume, Esq., F.G.S. 



January 8, 1890. 



W. T. Blai^ford, LL.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



William Andrews, Esq., Gosford Lodge, Coventry ; the Earl of 

 Berkeley, 21 Drayton Gardens, S.W. ; James Wright Croston, Esq., 

 3 Egerton Street, Prestwich, Manchester ; Walcot Gibson, Esq., 

 34 Eadnor Street, Chelsea, S.W. ; and Arthur Octavius Watkins, 

 Esq., Assoc. E.S.M., Stow Park, Newport, Monmouthshire, were 

 elected FeUows of the Society. 



The following Fellows, nominated by the Council, were elected 

 Auditors of the Society's Accounts for the preceding year: — 

 H. BATJEEMA]ff, Esq.,H. W. Moi^cKTON, Esq. 



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