PEOCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1884-85. 



November 5, 1884. 

 Prof. T. G. Bonnet, D.Sc, LL.D., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



William Lower Carter, Esq., B.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The Seceetary announced^that a water-colour picture of the Hot 

 Springs of Gardiner's Eiver, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming Territory, 

 U.S.A., which was painted on the spot by Thomas Moran, Esq., 

 had been presented to the Society by the artist and A. G. Henshaw, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On a new Deposit of Pliocene Age at St. Erth, 15 miles east 

 of the Land's End, Cornwall." By S. Y. Wood, Esq., E.G.S. 



2. " The Cretaceous Beds at Black Yen, near Lyme Eegis, with 

 some supplementary remarks on the Blackdown Beds." By the 

 Eev. W. Downes, B.A., E.G.S. 



3. " On some Eecent Discoveries in the Submerged Forest of 

 Torbay." By D. Pidgeon, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens exhibited by Searles Y. Wood, Esq., the Eev. W. 

 Downes, B.A., and D. Pidgeon, Esq., in illustration of their papers. 



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