PROCEEDINGS OF TEIE GEOLOGICAL SOCIEXr. 1 3 



December 17, 1890. 



W. H. HuDLESTON, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Elliott !Moore Cairnes, Esq., ^Iinin<? Surveyor, Department of 

 Mines, Melbourne, Victoria ; John H. Cooke, Esq., Highland 

 House, St. Julian's, Malta ; Joseph James East, P^sq., Assistant- 

 Director, School of Mines and Industries, N'orth Terrace, Adelaide, 

 South Australia ; Dawson Kitchingman, Esq., Assoc. Inst.C.E., The 

 Laurels, Yatton, Somersetshire ; Arthur Montefiore, Esq., 1 Marlbro' 

 Iload, Bedford Park, W. ; Herbert Warington Smyth, Esq., 13. A,, 

 5 Inverness Terrace, W., and The Cliff, Marazion ; Henry Arthur 

 Spalding, Esq., Geraldton, Western Australia ; Umfreviile Percy 

 Swinburne, Esq., Capheaton Hall, iS"ewcastle-on-Tyne ; and William 

 Roberts Thomas, Esq., Uranium Mines, Grampound Road, Cornwall, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On Xepheline Rocks in Brazil. — II. The Tingua Mass." 

 By 0. A. Derby, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. " The Variolitic Diabase of the Fichtelgebirge." By J. Walter 

 Gregory, Esq., F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural History). 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Rock-specimens and photographs exhibited by 0. A. Derby, Esq., 

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



Rock-specimens and photographs exhibited by J. W. Gregory, 

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



January 7, 1891. 



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



William Henry Fitton, Esq., Highpits House, Beeston, Leeds ; 

 Andres Franchy, Esq., B.A. (Seville), Assoc.R.S.M., Las Palmas, 

 Grand Canary, and care of Messrs. Kolp and Co., Manchester ; and 

 Ernest William Wetherell, Es(|., 43 Conduit Street, W., were elected 

 Fellows ; Dr. Charles Barrois, Lille, was elected a Foreign Member ; 



