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maintained that there was but one scries, and tliat tlie tliickness 

 was less than a third of that usually given. lie correlated tho 

 Pilton Jiods, as shown in the map and section, with the higher car- 

 bonaceous slates and calcareous beds in tlie llfraconibo trough. It 

 was quite possible that tho Pilton Calcareous Shales represented 

 limestone-beds elsewhere. Fhacops hdlfrons^ according to Mr. 

 Whidborne's view, ought to go into the Carboniferous. He main- 

 tained that !Mr. lioberts's own list, as furnished to him, supported 

 his (the Author's) view. Doubtful species, determined from imper- 

 fect material obtained from one area only, should not be used as 

 evidence, especially against that derived from well-recognized fossils. 

 Tho Morte-!Slates Lingula was certainly not a Devonian species, but 

 evidently a much older form. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens and photographs exhibited by Dr. H. Hicks, P.E-.S., 

 Sec.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



A Special General Meeting was held at 7.45 o'clock p.m., before 

 the Ordinary General Meeting, at which J. W. Hulke, Esq., P.R.S., 

 was elected Poreign Secretary, and J. J. H. Teall, Esq., P.R.S., w^as 

 elected a Member of Council ; also a gift of a sum of £50 to the 

 AYidow of the late Assistant-Secretary was sanctioned. 



December 10, 1890. 

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



Tempest Anderson, M.D., B.Sc, 17 Stonegate, York ; Humphrey 

 Purnell Blackmore, M.D., Salisbury, Wiltshire ; William Young 

 Campbell, Esq., 24 Gledstancs lload. West Kensington, W., and 

 Johannesburg, South Africa ; Joseph Prederick Crowder, Esq., 

 Oxford lioad, Macclesfield ; William Thomas Curry, Escj., Assoc. 

 M.Inst.C.E., Chelvey West Town, Somersetshire ; Philip Latimer 

 Davies, Esq., Science Demonstrator, Liverpool College, 40 Peacous- 

 field Street, Liverpool ; G. Pirth Pranks, Esq., B.A., Harrison's College, 

 Bridgetown, Barbados ; llev. Charles Prederick Bonney Hawkins, 

 M.A., 87 Gloucester Place, W., and Grosvenor Club, W. ; Bev. Ed. 

 Jones, Bockville, Embsay, near Skipton ; Nono Kitto, Esq., Pox- 

 dale, Isle of Man ; Henry Albeit Mangles, Esq., late Bengal Civil 

 Service, Littleworth Cross, Tongham, Surrey ; Edward P. Mathers, 

 Esq., Glenalmond, Westwood Park, Porest Hill, S.E. ; 0. C. J. G. 

 L. Overbeck, Esq., Glenville, Waterfoot, Manchester; Prank Owen, 

 Esq., Sheen Lodge, llichmoud Park, East Sheen, S.W. ; Janjes 

 Yilliers Parkes, Esq., Warden of Gold-Pields and Acting Inspector 



