﻿PEOCEEDINGS 
  

  

  OF 
  THE 
  

  

  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY 
  OF 
  LONDON, 
  

  

  SESSION 
  1888-89, 
  

  

  November 
  7, 
  1888. 
  

   W. 
  T. 
  Blakfokd, 
  LL.D., 
  F.R.S., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  Daniel 
  Clague, 
  Esq., 
  81 
  Lime 
  Grove, 
  Liverpool, 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  

   Fellow, 
  and 
  Professor 
  C. 
  Renevier 
  of 
  Lausanne, 
  a 
  Foreign 
  Member 
  

   of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  The 
  List 
  of 
  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  was 
  read. 
  

  

  A 
  collection 
  of 
  Auriferous 
  rock-specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Transvaal, 
  

   South 
  Africa, 
  was 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  bv 
  Alfred 
  Woodhouse, 
  

   Esq., 
  F.G.S. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  communications 
  were 
  read 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  "The 
  Permian 
  Rocks 
  of 
  the 
  Leicestershire 
  Coal-field." 
  By 
  

   Horace 
  T. 
  Brown, 
  Esq., 
  E.G.S. 
  

  

  2. 
  "On 
  the 
  Superficial 
  Geology 
  of 
  the 
  Central 
  Plateau 
  of 
  North- 
  

   western 
  Canada." 
  By 
  J. 
  B. 
  Tyrrell, 
  Esq., 
  B.A., 
  F.G.S., 
  Eield 
  

   Geologist 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  and 
  Natural 
  History 
  Survey 
  of 
  Canada*. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  of 
  rocks, 
  microscopic 
  sections, 
  and 
  photographs 
  were 
  

   exhibited 
  by 
  H. 
  T. 
  Brown, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S., 
  in 
  illustration 
  of 
  his 
  paper. 
  

  

  November 
  21, 
  1888. 
  

   W. 
  T. 
  Blanford, 
  LL.D., 
  F.R.S., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  Thomas 
  Charles 
  Townsend, 
  Esq., 
  M.Inst. 
  C.E., 
  22 
  Halford 
  Eoad, 
  

   Richmond, 
  S.W., 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  The 
  List 
  of 
  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  was 
  read. 
  

  

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

  

  * 
  This 
  paper 
  has 
  been 
  withdrawn 
  by 
  permission 
  of 
  the 
  Council. 
  

   VOL. 
  XLV. 
  a 
  

  

  