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  PKOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  June 
  19, 
  1889. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  J. 
  W. 
  Jfdd, 
  E.R.S., 
  Vice-President, 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  Lieut.-Colonel 
  Birkett, 
  Natal 
  Royal 
  Rifles, 
  Natal 
  ; 
  Joseph 
  Edmund 
  

   Carne, 
  Esq., 
  Geological 
  Museum, 
  Department 
  of 
  Mines, 
  Sydney, 
  

   N.S.W. 
  ; 
  John 
  Sydney 
  Crawford, 
  Esq., 
  care 
  of 
  W. 
  R. 
  Kerr, 
  Esq., 
  

   8 
  Nevill 
  Terrace, 
  Onslow 
  Gardens, 
  S.W., 
  and 
  James 
  Thomas 
  Day, 
  

   Esq., 
  12 
  Albert 
  Square, 
  Stepney, 
  E., 
  were 
  elected 
  Eellows, 
  and 
  

   Prof. 
  A. 
  Stoppani, 
  Elorence, 
  and 
  M. 
  R. 
  D. 
  M. 
  Verbeek, 
  Java, 
  Foreign 
  

   Correspondents 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  The 
  List 
  of 
  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  was 
  read. 
  

  

  The 
  Secretary 
  announced 
  that 
  1-4 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  De 
  Kaap 
  

   Gold 
  Fields, 
  South 
  African 
  Republic, 
  had 
  been 
  presented 
  by 
  R. 
  H. 
  

   Scaddan, 
  Esq., 
  of 
  Johannesburg. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  communications 
  were 
  read 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  " 
  On 
  Tachylyte 
  from 
  Victoria 
  Park, 
  Whiteinch, 
  neer 
  Glasgow." 
  

   By 
  Prank 
  Rutley, 
  Esq., 
  E.G.S. 
  

  

  2. 
  " 
  The 
  Descent 
  of 
  Sonninia 
  and 
  Hammatoceras" 
  By 
  S. 
  S. 
  

   Buckman, 
  Esq., 
  E.G.S. 
  

  

  3. 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Bagshot 
  Beds 
  and 
  their 
  Stratigraphy." 
  By 
  H. 
  

   G. 
  Lyons, 
  Esq., 
  R.E., 
  E.G.S. 
  

  

  4. 
  " 
  Description 
  of 
  some 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Carboniferous 
  Gastero- 
  

   poda." 
  By 
  Miss 
  Jane 
  Donald. 
  (Communicated 
  by 
  J. 
  G. 
  Goodchild, 
  

   Esq., 
  E.G.S.) 
  

  

  5. 
  " 
  Cystechinus 
  crassus, 
  a 
  new 
  Species 
  from 
  the 
  Radiolarian 
  

   Marls 
  of 
  Barbadoes 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  evidence 
  it 
  affords 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  Age 
  and 
  

   Origin 
  of 
  those 
  Deposits 
  " 
  By 
  J. 
  W. 
  Gregory, 
  Esq., 
  E.G.S. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  specimens 
  were 
  exhibited 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Specimens 
  exhibited 
  by 
  Erank 
  Rutley, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S., 
  in 
  illustra- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  his 
  paper. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  of 
  Sonninia 
  and 
  Hammatoceras, 
  exhibited 
  by 
  S. 
  S. 
  

   Buckman, 
  Esq., 
  in 
  illustration 
  of 
  his 
  paper. 
  

  

  Microscopic 
  section 
  of 
  the 
  Radiolarian-Marl 
  matrix 
  of 
  Cystechinus 
  

   crassus 
  from 
  Barbadoes, 
  exhibited 
  by 
  J. 
  W. 
  Gregory, 
  Esq., 
  E.G.S., 
  

   in 
  illustration 
  of 
  his 
  paper. 
  

  

  A 
  Collotype 
  view 
  of 
  Eossil 
  Trees, 
  Victoria 
  Park, 
  Whiteinch, 
  

   Glasgow, 
  exhibited 
  by 
  S. 
  H. 
  Needham, 
  Esq., 
  E.G.S. 
  

  

  