T74 PKOCEEDTNQS OF THE GEOLOGIC A.L SOCIETY. 



i liter-Glacial age, and represented the " limestone-gravel beds " of the 

 central plain of Ireland. 



The Author, in reply to Mr. Reid, pointed out that the marine 

 deposit near the Chichester hills had no relations with the " mud 

 deposit," but belonged to the series of pebble- or gravel-beds overlying 

 it. Referring to Prof. Hull's remarks upon the age of the Wexford 

 gravels, he gave his reasons for having suggested their age to be 

 pre-Glacial, probably equal in time to the East-Anglian Weybourn 

 sands. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens exhibited by the Rev. A. Irving, B.A., D.Sc, F.G.S., 

 in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens exhibited by A. Bell, Esq., in illustration of his paper. 



June 24, 1891. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Joseph Cater, M.A., The Rectory, Bisley, Woking ; 

 James Rutland, Esq., The Gables, Taplow ; and Thomas Winter, 

 Esq., County School, Elmham, Norfolk, were elected Eellows of 

 the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following names of Eellows of the Society were read out for 

 the second time, in conformity with the Bye-laws, Section VI. 

 Article 5, in consequence of the non-payment of arrears of contri- 

 butions: — R. Betley, Esq.; Rev. G. Clements ; Rev. J. M. Ccjrran; 

 F. L. GARRisoif, Esq. ; F. B. Henderson, Esq. ; R. W. Macleod, 

 Esq. ; J. C. Margetson, Esq. ; Rev. E. C. Pritchard ; C. B. 

 Renshaw, Esq. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On Wells in West-Suffolk Boulder-Clay.'* By the Rev. 

 Edwin HUl, M.A., F.G.S. 



2. " On the Melaphyres of Caradoc, with Notes on the Associated 

 Felsites." By Frank Rutley, Esq., F.G.S. 



