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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  Lithiophilite 
  from 
  Branchville, 
  Conn., 
  U.S.A., 
  exhi- 
  

   bited 
  by 
  H. 
  Bauerman, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S. 
  

  

  Pebbles 
  of 
  ancient 
  gneiss 
  from 
  a 
  conglomerate 
  in 
  the 
  gneiss 
  and 
  

   mica-schist 
  formation 
  of 
  the 
  Erzgebirge, 
  and 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  so- 
  

   called 
  Eopteris 
  Morierei, 
  Saporta, 
  from 
  the 
  slates 
  of 
  Angers, 
  exhibited 
  

   by 
  Dr. 
  T. 
  Sterry 
  Hunt, 
  F.R.S. 
  

  

  Welsh 
  pre-Cambrian 
  rock-specimens, 
  exhibited 
  by 
  Prof. 
  T. 
  M 
  C 
  K, 
  

   Hughes, 
  M.A., 
  F.G.S. 
  

  

  December?, 
  1881. 
  

  

  Robert 
  Etheridge, 
  Esq., 
  F.R.S., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  William 
  Amhurst 
  Tyssen 
  Amherst, 
  Esq., 
  M.P., 
  F.S.A., 
  Didlington 
  

   Hall, 
  Norfolk, 
  and 
  88 
  Brook 
  Street, 
  W. 
  ; 
  Robert 
  Edward 
  Cresswell, 
  

   Esq., 
  Assoc. 
  Mem. 
  Inst. 
  C.E., 
  TJttoxeter 
  Road, 
  Derby 
  ; 
  W. 
  R. 
  Eaton 
  

   Hodgkinson, 
  Esq., 
  Normal 
  School 
  of 
  Science, 
  South 
  Kensington, 
  

   S.W. 
  ; 
  Simon 
  D. 
  Macdonald, 
  Esq., 
  264 
  Gottingen 
  Street, 
  Halifax, 
  

   Nova 
  Scotia 
  ; 
  Rev. 
  Edward 
  Cook 
  Pritchard, 
  Bourne 
  House, 
  Brook 
  

   Street, 
  Peterborough 
  ; 
  Rev. 
  Alexander 
  Simpson, 
  B.Sc, 
  B.A., 
  Torry, 
  

   Aberdeen 
  ; 
  Prof. 
  William 
  Waagen, 
  Ph.D., 
  Mariengasse 
  2b, 
  Prag, 
  ii. 
  ; 
  

   Frederick 
  John 
  Webb, 
  Esq., 
  22 
  St. 
  James 
  Place, 
  Plymouth 
  ; 
  and 
  

   Charles 
  Henry 
  Wilson, 
  Esq., 
  M.A., 
  Rugby, 
  Morgan 
  County, 
  Ten- 
  

   nessee, 
  U.S., 
  were 
  elected 
  Fellows 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  The 
  Secretary 
  announced 
  that 
  the 
  original 
  drawings 
  of 
  fossil 
  

   fishes, 
  made 
  from 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  Earl 
  of 
  Ennis- 
  

   killen 
  and 
  bequeathed 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Sir 
  Philip 
  Egerton, 
  

   had 
  been 
  received. 
  

  

  The 
  List 
  of 
  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  was 
  read. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  Topley 
  made 
  the 
  following 
  further 
  statement 
  respecting 
  

   the 
  International 
  Geological 
  Congress 
  at 
  Bologna 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Hughes's 
  communication 
  to 
  this 
  Society, 
  at 
  its 
  last 
  Meeting, 
  

   referred 
  to 
  the 
  work 
  done 
  at 
  the 
  Congress 
  upon 
  Geological 
  Nomen- 
  

   clature. 
  The 
  present 
  communication 
  refers 
  to 
  the 
  second 
  subject 
  

   debated 
  by 
  the 
  Congress, 
  the 
  Unification 
  of 
  Colours, 
  Signs, 
  &c. 
  

   employed 
  on 
  Geological 
  Maps. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  Congress 
  held 
  at 
  Paris 
  in 
  1878 
  certain 
  geologists 
  in 
  each 
  

   country 
  were 
  appointed 
  Presidents 
  of 
  Committees, 
  to 
  be 
  thereafter 
  

   nominated 
  by 
  them. 
  Sir 
  Andrew 
  Ramsay 
  is 
  the 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  

   British 
  Committee. 
  Last 
  year 
  a 
  Committee 
  was 
  nominated 
  of 
  

   fifteen 
  members, 
  several 
  Meetings 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  held 
  in 
  London. 
  

  

  