2 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 15, 1882. 

 Dr. J. Gwyn Jepekeys, F.R.S., "Vice-President, in the Chair. 



John Edmund Thomas, Esq., Dorset House, Alfred Place, Aber- 

 ystwyth, and Joseph Williams, Esq., Pant-gwyn House, Holywell, 

 Flintshire, were elected Eellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "The Drift-beds of the North-west of England and North 

 Wales. — Part 2. Their Nature, Stratigraphy, and Distribution." 

 By T. Mellard Eeade, Esq., C.E., F.G.S. 



2. " On the Evidences of Glacial Action in South Brecknockshire 

 and East Glamorganshire." By T. W. Edgeworth David, Esq. 

 Communicated by Professor J. Prestwich, F.R.S., E.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Rock-specimens exhibited by Messrs. Reade and David, in illus- 

 tration of their papers. 



December 6, 1882. 



J. W. Hulke, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Charles Bird, Esq., B.A., Mathematical School, Rochester; Enoch 

 Cartwright, Esq., Park Yiew, Wood Green, Wednesbury ; Henry 

 Eunson, Esq., C.E., 20 Giles Street, Northampton ; William John- 

 stone, Esq., E.I.C., E.C.S., Athenaeum Chambers, Lynn; Henry 

 Liversidge, Esq., Jun., Portington Hall, near Howden ; Henry 

 George Lyons, Esq., Royal Military Academy, Woolwich ; Joseph 

 Mawson, Esq., St. Ives, Acol Road, West Hampstead, N.W. ; Horace 

 W. Monckton, Esq., Hare Court, Temple, E.C., and Junior Carlton 

 Club, W. ; Henry Alexander Miers, Esq., B.A., Eden Cottage, 

 Beckenham, Kent ; John Postlethwaite, Esq., Eskin Place, Keswick, 

 Cumberland ; and Thomas Yiccars, Esq., The Public College, Tor- 

 quay, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



A case of Rocks, Fossils, &c. from the Department of Salto, 



