PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 97 



February 25, 1885. 



Prof. T. G. BoiTNEY, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Bennett Hooper Brough, Esq., Assoc. R.S.M., 5 Robert Street, 

 Adelphi, W.C. ; Parvati Nath Datta, Esq., 10 Blackwood Crescent, 

 Edinburgh ; Robert Stansfield Herries, Esq.. B.A. Cambr., 53 War- 

 wick Square, London, S.W. ; William Herbert Herries, Esq., B.A. 

 Cambr., Shaftesbury, Te Aroka, Auckland, Xew Zealand ; Rev. 

 Edward Jordon, Ravenscroft Park, High Barnet, N. ; Lees Knowles, 

 Esq., M.A., LL.M., Westwood, Pendlebury, near Manchester ; and 

 William Hobbs Shrubsole, Esq., Sheerness, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On a Dredged Skull of Ovibos moschatusJ' By Prof. W. 

 Boyd Dawkins, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. " On Fulgurite from Mont Blanc." Bv Frank Rutley, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



3. " On Brecciated Porfido-rosso-antico." By Frank Rutley, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



4. " Fossil Cyclostomatous Bryozoa from Aldinga and the River- 

 Murray Cliffs, South Australia." By Arthur Wm. Waters, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



The following objects were exhibited : — 



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

 tion of his papers. 



A collection of stone implements and two ciit bones from the 

 neighbourhood of Reading, Berks, exhibited by 0. A. Shrubsole, 

 I., F.G.S. 



Two old oil-paintings of Yesuvius in eruption, exhibited by 

 George Ellis, Esq. 



March 11, 1885. 



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



William Lester, Esq., J. P., Bron Offa, near Wrexham, and 

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