PBOCEEDHSTGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 75 



June 20, 1883. 

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



Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, Esq., Director of the Geological Survey 

 of South Australia, Adelaide ; Edward St. E. Moore, Esq., Lieut. 

 4th Batt. Northamptonshire Regt., Woodbridge, Suffolk; John 

 Henry Nichols, Esq., Sandfield Hall, Newton-le- Willows ; and 

 Henry Parker, Esq., Irrigation Officer, Public Works Department, 

 Ceylon, were elected Fellows, and Baron E. von Richthofen, of 

 Berlin, a Foreign Correspondent of the Society. 



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

 the second time in conformity with the Bye-Laws, Sec. VI. B. Art. 6, 

 in consequence of the non-payment of the arrears of their contri- 

 butions : — Bev. J. Crompton ; J. Dorrington, Esq. ; Rev. J. T. C. 

 Gullon ; J. Harte, Esq. ; D. R. Irvine, Esq. ; T. R. Mellor, Esq. ; 

 R. Plant, Esq. ; L. Rhys, Esq. ; S. R. Smyth, Esq. ; and Dr. E. H. W. 

 Swete. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On the Discovery of Ovibos moschatus in the Forest-bed, and 

 its Range in Space and Time." By Prof. W. Bovd Dawkins, M.A., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. " On the Relative Age of some Valleys in Lincolnshire." By 



A. J. Jukes-Browne, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 



3. " On the Section at Hordwell Cliffs, from the top of the Lower 

 Headon to the base of the Upper Bagshot Sands." By the late E. 



B. Tawney, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., andH. Keeping, Esq., of the Wood- 

 wardian Museum. Communicated by the Rev. Osmond Fisher, 

 M.A., F.G.S. 



4. " On some New or imperfectly known Madreporaria from the 

 Coral Rag and Portland Oolite of the Counties of Wilts, Oxford, 

 Cambridge, and York." By R. F. Tomes, Esq., F.G.S. 



5. " The Geology of Monte Somma and Vesuvius, being a Study 

 in Vulcanology." By H. J. Johnston-Lavis, Esq., F.G.S. 



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