PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. IO9 



The following connnunications were read : — 



1. "On the so-called Diorite of Little Knott (Cumberland), with 

 further Kemarks on the Occurrence of Picrites in Wales." By Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, LL.D. P.R.S., Pres.G.S. 



2. " Sketches of South-African Geology. — No. 2. A Sketch of the 

 Gold-Pields of the Transvaal, South Africa." By AY. H. Penning, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



3. " On some Erratics in the Boulder-clay of Cheshire &c., and 

 the Conditions of Climate they denote." By Charles Eicketts, M.D., 

 F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Microscopic rock-sections and rock specimens, exhibited by the 

 President, in illustration of his paper. 



Boulders, &c., exhibited by Dr. Ricketts, in illustration of his 

 paper. 



June 10, 1885. 

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

 The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following names of Fellows of the Society were read out for 

 the first time, in conformity with the Bye-laws Sec. vi. B. Art. 6, in 

 consequence of the non-payment of the arrears of their contribu- 

 tions : — G. Bock, Esq., Rev. S. Gasking, and W. Low, Esq. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Note on the Sternal Apparatus in Iguanodon.^^ By J. W. 

 Hulke, Esq., F.R.S., Y.P.G.S. 



2. " The Lower Palseozoic Rocks of the Neighbourhood of Haver- 

 fordwest." By J. E. Marr, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., and T. Roberts, 

 Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 



3. "On certain Fossiliferous Nodules and Fragments of Hsematite 

 (sometimes Magnetite) from the (so-called) Permian Breccias of 

 Leicestershire and South Derbyshire." By W. S. Gresley, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



[Abstract.] 



In this paper the author described certain pebbles of haematite 

 and magnetite which occur in the so-called Permian breccias on 



