6 PBOCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " The Metamorphism of Dolerite into Hornblende-schist." 

 By J. J. Harris Teall, Esq., M.A., F.a.S. 



2. " Sketch of the Geology of 'New Zealand." By Captain F. W. 

 Hutton, F.Gr.S., Professor of Biology in the Canterbury College, 

 University of j^ew Zealand. 



3. *' The Drift-deposits of Colwyn Bay." By T. Mellard Reade, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



The following objects were exhibited : — 



Life-sized photographs of the fruit of the recent Cycads, EncepTial- 

 artos latifrons and E. longifolius, from South Africa, exhibited by 

 Prof. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.P.S. 



Objects shown with simple illumination, dark-ground illumina- 

 tion, and polarized light, by means of Dr. Wallich's new Condenser, 

 exhibited by Dr. G. C. Wallich. 



Specimens and microscopic rock-sections, exhibited by J. J. H. 

 Teall, Esq., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



January 28, 1885. 



Prof. T. G. BoT^NET, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Frederick John CuUis, Esq., 28 CJaremont Road, Handsworth, 

 Birmingham ; Henry Dewes, Esq., 19 Duchess Road, Edgbastou, 

 Birmingham ; Henry Hutchins French, Esq., Grove Road, Sutton, 

 Surrey ; Jacob Hort Player, Esq., F.C.S., Calthorpe Road, Birming- 

 ham ; and the Honourable Donald A. Smith of Montreal were 

 elected Fellows, and Professor F. Fouque of Paris and Dr. Gustav 

 Lindstrom of Stockholm, Foreign Correspondents of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Pkesident called attention to the great loss the Society had 

 sustained in the sudden and unexpected death of Dr. J. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys, F.R.S., &c., who had been for twenty-one years continuously 

 a Member of the Council, and for fourteen years of that time had 

 performed most valuable services to the Society as Treasurer. 



