﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  8 
  I 
  

  

  Microscopic 
  sections 
  and 
  specimens 
  were 
  exhibited 
  by 
  A. 
  J. 
  Jukes- 
  

   Browne, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S., 
  and 
  W. 
  Hill, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S., 
  in 
  illustration 
  of 
  

   their 
  paper. 
  

  

  ApriJ 
  3, 
  1889. 
  

  

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

  

  Enoch 
  Kidson, 
  Esq., 
  69 
  Gregory 
  Boulevard, 
  Nottingham 
  ; 
  and 
  

   Prof. 
  Edward 
  Wadsworth, 
  A.M., 
  Ph.D., 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  Michigan 
  

   Mining 
  School, 
  Houghton, 
  Michigan, 
  U.S.A., 
  were 
  elected 
  Fellows 
  ; 
  

   Prof. 
  F. 
  Fouque, 
  of 
  Paris, 
  and 
  Prof. 
  K. 
  A. 
  von 
  Zittel, 
  of 
  Munich, 
  

   Foreign 
  Members 
  ; 
  and 
  M. 
  Michel-Levy, 
  of 
  Paris, 
  and 
  Prof. 
  G. 
  K. 
  

   Gilbert, 
  of 
  Washington, 
  D.C., 
  U.S.A., 
  Foreign 
  Correspondents 
  of 
  

   the 
  Society. 
  

  

  The 
  List 
  of 
  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  was 
  read. 
  

  

  The 
  Secretary 
  announced 
  that 
  the 
  following 
  works, 
  ordered 
  by 
  

   the 
  Council 
  to 
  be 
  purchased, 
  were 
  on 
  the 
  table 
  : 
  — 
  The 
  Life 
  and 
  Letters 
  

   of 
  Charles 
  Darwin, 
  3 
  vols. 
  ; 
  and 
  Borneo, 
  by 
  T. 
  Posewitz. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  announced 
  that, 
  according 
  to 
  a 
  circular 
  lately 
  

   received, 
  the 
  " 
  Societe 
  Geologique 
  de 
  France 
  " 
  proposed 
  to 
  hold 
  its 
  

   extraordinary 
  Meeting 
  this 
  year 
  in 
  Paris, 
  the 
  date 
  being 
  fixed 
  for 
  

   the 
  18th 
  August 
  next. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  communications 
  were 
  read 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  "The 
  El 
  vans 
  and 
  Volcanic 
  Rocks 
  of 
  Dartmoor." 
  By 
  K. 
  N. 
  

   Worth, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S. 
  

  

  2. 
  "The 
  Basals 
  of 
  Eugeniacrinidae." 
  By 
  F. 
  A. 
  Bather, 
  Esq., 
  

   B.A., 
  F.G.S. 
  

  

  3. 
  "On 
  some 
  Bryozoa 
  from 
  the 
  Inferior 
  Oolite 
  of 
  Shipton 
  Gorge, 
  

   Dorset." 
  By 
  E. 
  A. 
  Walford, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  specimens 
  were 
  exhibited 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Specimens 
  of 
  Eugeniacrinus 
  caryophyllatus 
  lent 
  by 
  Prof. 
  K. 
  A. 
  

   von 
  Zittel, 
  F.M.G.S., 
  and 
  exhibited 
  by 
  F. 
  A. 
  Bather, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S., 
  

   in 
  illustration 
  of 
  his 
  paper. 
  

  

  30 
  slides 
  of 
  Bryozoa 
  from 
  the 
  Inferior 
  Oolite 
  of 
  Dorset, 
  exhibited 
  

   by 
  E. 
  A. 
  Walford, 
  Esq., 
  F.G^S., 
  in 
  illustration 
  of 
  his 
  paper. 
  

  

  A 
  Special 
  General 
  Meeting 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  7.30 
  p.m., 
  before 
  the 
  

   Ordinary 
  General 
  Meeting, 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  voting 
  upon 
  certain 
  

   proposed 
  alterations 
  in 
  the 
  Bye-Laws, 
  adjourned 
  from 
  a 
  Special 
  

   General 
  Meeting 
  on 
  March 
  15th. 
  In 
  a 
  final 
  ballot 
  the 
  Bye-Laws 
  

   as 
  amended 
  by 
  the 
  Council 
  were 
  formally 
  adopted. 
  

  

  