llS I'ROCEEDJNGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



April 30, 1890. 



Dr. A. Geikie, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Edward Byron Lindon, Esq., Assoc.R.S.M., Brisbane, Queens- 

 land: and Edwin Melville itichards, Esq., Assoc.Memb.Insfc.C.E., 

 The Butts, Warwick, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following name of a Fellow of the Society was read out for the 

 first time, in conformity with the Bye-laws, Section VI. Article 5, 

 in consequence of the non-payment of arrears of contributions — 

 J. W. Baery, Esq. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On certain Physical Peculiarities exhibited by the so-called 

 * Eaised Beaches ' of Hope's Nose and the Thatcher Bock, Devon." 

 By D. Pidgeon, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. " The Devonian Rocks of South Devon." By W. A. E. Ussher, 



Esq., F.G.S., of LI.M. Geological Survey. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens from the raised Beaches of Hope's Nose and the 

 Thatcher Rock, Devon, exhibited by D. Pidgeon, Esq., F.G.S., in 

 illustration of his paper. 



Pebbles from the Raised Beach at Berry Head, exhibited by A. R. 

 Hunt, Esq., F.G.S. 



Specimens exhibited by W. A. E. Ussher, Esq., F.G.S., in illus- 

 tration of his paper. 



Specimens of Entomis-shale (Cypridinen-Schiefer) from Thiiringia 

 and the Eifel, exhibited by Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



May 14, 1890. 



Dr. A. Geikie, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



George William Lamplugh, Esq., Wellington Road, Bridlington 

 Quay; and Arthur Timmins, Esq., Assoc. M.Inst.C.E., Argyll Lodge, 

 Runcorn, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Percy H. Browne, Esq., Reigate"; T. R. Maddison, Esq., Dirtcar 

 House, near Wakefield : William Rogers, Esq., The Grange, CoppuU, 

 Lancashire ; H. Rofe, Esq., Mera.Inst.C.E., 8 Victoria Street, West- 

 minster ; Major-General Alexander do Courcy Scott, late R.E., 

 Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., 86 Cornwall Gardens, S.W., and Thomas Sullock 



