A PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
December 19, 1883. 
J. W. Hurxs, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Rey. W. R. Andrews, M.A., Teffont Rectory, Salisbury ; Robert 
James Frecheville, Esq., Truro; and Rey. Philip R. Sleeman, 
65 Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol, were elected Fellows of the 
Society. 
The List of Donations to the Library was read. 
The following Donations to the Museum were announced :— 
Specimens of the so-called Miocene fossils from South Australia 
and Victoria, presented by Prof. Ralph Tate, F.G.S., and a Stick 
made from wood from the Buried Forest discovered in excavating 
the Prince’s Dock, Bombay, presented by Capt. A. W. Stiffe, LN., 
F.G.S. 
The Secretary read the following note from Capt. Stiffe in re- 
ference to the latter specimen :— 
‘“‘T wish to offer the Society a piece of wood from the buried 
forest discovered on excavating the Prince’s Dock, Bombay. The 
circumstances are described in a paper in the ‘Geological Survey 
Records of India’ by Mr. Medlicott. The lowest part of the forest 
was about 16 feet below low-water springs, and the trunks of trees 
were found im situ and imbedded in a blue clay lying beneath 4 
or 5 feet of recent marine mud. The thickness of the blue clay 
does not appear to be given. 
“Tt is curious that a log which was considered to have been 
charred by fire was found associated with the trees of the buried 
forest ; other wood was found which apparently had drifted into 
the same area. 
‘‘The area excavated for the dock was 30 acres, but similar wood 
has been dredged up beyond those limits while deepening the ap- 
proaches. The unaltered state of the wood is noteworthy. 
“ ArtHur W. Srirre, F.G.S.” 
The following communications were read :— 
1. “On some Remains of Fossil Fishes from the Yoredale Series 
at Leyburn in Wensleydale.” By James W. Davis, Esq., F.G.S. 
2. “ Petrological Notes on some North-of-England Dykes.” By 
J.J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 
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