4 PEOCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Two slides with Cretaceous Lichenoporidse, illustrating a pap 

 in the Q. J. Gr. S. vol. xl. p. 850, presented by the author, G. R. Yin 

 Esq. 



Specimens of Fossil Bryozoa from Muddy Creek, Yictoria, pre- 

 sented by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq., of Geelong. 



Casts of Eootprints in the Lower New Eed Sandstone of Penrith, 

 illustrating a paper in the Q. J. G. S. vol. xl. p. 479, presented by 

 the author, G. Varty Smith, Esq., E.G.S. 



The President announced the great loss which the Society had 

 sustained in the decease of Mr. R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, F.E.S., 

 which took place at his country seat, Shalford House, near Guild- 

 ford, on the 25th November, in his 76th year. He became a 

 Fellow of the Society in the year 1830, so that he had belonged to 

 it for 54 years. For three years he filled the of&ce of Foreign 

 Secretary ; he had been a Yice-President and an active Member of 

 the Council ; but he always refused to be nominated as President, 

 although several times urged to accept that honour. He was a 

 Wollaston Medallist and the author of sixteen papers in the 

 Society's publications. His writings were remarkable for their 

 clear and masterly character, and displayed that peculiar insight 

 into geological structure which almost amounts to foresight. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Note on a Section near Llanberis." By Professor A. H. 

 Green, F.G.S. 



2. " The Tertiary Basaltic Formation in Iceland." By J. Starkie 

 Gardner, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



3. " On the Lower Eocene Plant-beds of the Basaltic Formation 

 of Ulster." By J. StarHe Gardner, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



The following objects were exhibited : — 



Eock-specimens and Microscopic Sections, exhibited by Prof. A. 

 H. Green, F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens, exhibited by J. S. Gardner, Esq., F.G.S., in illustra- 

 tion of his paper. 



Specimens from Iceland, exhibited by Prof. J. W. Judd, F.E.S., 

 Sec. G.S., in illustration of Mr. Gardner's paper. 



A photograph of Palceophoneus nuncius, Torell and Lindstrom, 

 from the Upper Silurian of the Isle of Gotland, exhibited by Dr. H. 

 Woodward, F.E.S., F.G.S. 



Clay Ironstone Slabs from the Forest-bed of Happisburgh, ex- 

 hibited by E. T. Newton, Esq., F.G.S. 



