XC PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May IQOI, 



In addition to the photographs and specimens described on 

 p. Ixxxviii the following were exhibited : — 



Specimens of Eocks and Fossils from the Millstone Grit Series, 

 with Rock-sections and Lantern-slides, exhibited by Wheelton Hind, 

 M.p., B.S., E.R.C.S., E.G.S., and J. Allen Howe, Esq., B.Sc, F.G.S., 

 in illustration of their paper. 



Vertical Sections, Geological Survey of England & Wales, 

 Nos. 83 & 84 : South Wales Coalfield, by A. Strahan & W. Gibson, 

 presented by the Director-General of H.M. Geological Survey. 



March 6th, 1901. 



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



Joseph Alfred Bean, Esq., Moot Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

 was elected a EeUow of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The PpvEsident read the following resolution, which had been 

 passed unanimously by the Council at their Meeting that after- 

 noon : — 



' That this Council desire to place on record their deep sense of the loss 

 occasioned to Geological Science by the death of Dr. George M. Dawson, O.M.G., 

 and to express their sincere sympathy with his family in their bereavement.' 



The Presiden-'i announced that Sir Auchibald Getkie, D.Sc, 

 D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. (President from 1890 to 1892), had presented 

 to the Society a large framed photographic portrait of himself. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' Becent Geological Changes in N'orthern and Central Asia.' 

 By Prof. George Frederick Wright, F.G.S.A. (Communicated by 

 the President.) 



2. ' The Hollow Spherulites of the Yellowstone and Great Britain.' 

 By John Parkinson, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Rock-specimens and Microscope-sections exhibited by John 

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



Limestone bored by a Species of Worm (?), from Hempstead 

 Beach (Isle of Wight), exhibited by W. P. D. Stebbing, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



