4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



December 20, 1882. 



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



Percival Fowler, Esq., C.E., 2 Queen Square Place, Westminster, 

 S.W. ; Alfred Eley Preston, Esq., C.E., Belle- Vue, Manningham, 

 Bradford, and Exchange, Bradford ; and Robert Blake White, Esq., 

 C.E., 23 Anerley Park, S.E., and Medella, U.S. of Colombia, South 

 America, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



A specimen of Oleandridium Beyrichii, Schenk, from the Wad- 

 hurst Clay of the Hastings cliffs, was presented to the Museum by 

 J. E. H. Peyton, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On Generic Characters in the Order Sauropterygia." By 

 Prof. Owen, C.B., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 



2. " On the Origin of Valley-Lakes, mainly with reference to the 

 Lakes of the Northern Alps." By the Rev. A. Irving, B.A., B.Sc, 

 F.G.S. 



January 10, 1883. 



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



T. W. Edgeworth David, Esq., St. Fagans, Cardiff, and Sydney, 

 Australia ; the Earl of Dysart, 29 Chesham Place, S. W. ; John James 

 Hamilton, Esq., Villa Clara, St. Mark's Road, Notting Hill, W. ; 

 Francis Alfred Lucas, Esq., 39 Gloucester Square, Hyde Park, W. ; 

 and Meaburn Staniland, Esq., Jun., Harrington Hall, Spilsby, were 

 elected Fellows, and Dr. Otto Torell, F.C.G.S., of Stockholm, a 

 Foreign Member of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Three specimens of Rocks from the Sierra Buttes, and a spherical 

 stone from a Pot-hole, North Yuba river, Sierra Nevada mountains, 

 California, were presented to the Museum by F. Tendron, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



