Vol. 57.] PEOCEEDIN-GS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. IxXXvil 



February 20th, 1901. 



J. J". H. Teall, Esq., M.A., V.P.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



George William Sawyer Brewer, Esq., Ryeworth YiUa, Charlton 

 Kings, Cheltenham ; James Carter, Esq., 1 Granville Road, Black- 

 burn ; Louis Charles Deverell, Esq., E.C.S., 101: Upper Thames 

 Street, E.C. ] Percy Hawkins, Esq., Beswada, Kistna District 

 (Madras Presidency) ; and L. Clements Henry, Esq., E.R.G.S., 

 Axim, Gold Coast (West Africa), were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Addeess which it was proposed to submit to His Majesty the 

 King, on behalf of the President, Council, and Fellows, was read 

 as follows, and the terms thereof were approved : — 



' TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 



' Mat it please Youe Majesty, 



' We, Y''our Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the President, 

 Council, and Fellows of the Geological Society of London, humbly beg leave 

 to offer to Your Majestj^ our most profound and heartfelt sympathy in the great 

 sorrow which has fallen on You in the death of our late beloved Sovereign 

 Queen Victoria, and to most respectfullj^ express the deep grief that we, in common 

 with all Your Majesty's subjects, feel at the great loss which has befallen the 

 Nation. 



'While thus expressing our grief, we most humblj' beg leave to offer to Your 

 Majesty our most sincere and unfeigned congratulations on Your Majesty's 

 Accession to the Throne of Your Ancestors. Our knowledge of the great interest 

 which Your Majesty has alwaj's taken in all matters relating to the welfare of 

 Y'our subjects makes us feel with confidence that Science will continue to advance 

 during Your Reign as in that of Her late Majesty of beloved memory. We recall 

 with pride that Your Majesty's Father, the late Prince Consort, was for many years 

 a Fellow of this Society. 



' And we shall ever pray that Your Majesty may long be sj)ared to reign over a 

 happy and contented people.' 



Prof. J. B. Hakrison, alluding to a series of views of parts 

 of the interior of British Guiana, which he laid on the 

 table, remarked that the photographs had been taken by his 

 colleague, Mr. H. I. Perkins, F.G.S., Acting Commissioner of 

 Mines in British Guiana, during their recent geological investi- 

 gations into the structure of the goldfields of that colony. The 

 views well illustrate the general characteristics of the densely 

 wooded country in which the gold-bearing areas occur, and give 

 some idea of the difficulties which affect the work of the mining 

 prospector and of the field-geologist in that colony. 



Several of the photographs illustrate rapids, cataracts, and falls 

 which so frequently occur along the courses of some of the vast 

 rivers of that part of South America, and show the differing forms 

 of weathering of various igneous rocks and of horizontaUy-bedded 

 sandstones and conglomerates in the tropics. 



Among the photographs are several fine views of the Kaieteur 



