PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



SESSION 1895-96. 



November 6th, 1895. 

 Dr. Heney Woodwaed, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Samuel John Truscott, Esq., Assoc.B.S.M., P.O. Box 590, 

 Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, was elected a Fellow of 

 the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Peesident announced that the Council had temporarily 

 appointed Mr. Clyde H. Black to the post of Assistant-Clerk. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 4 The Serpentine, Gneissoid, and Hornblendic Bocks of the 

 Lizard District.' By T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, LL.D., F.B.S., F.G.S., 

 Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in University College, London. 



2. 'The " Schistes Lustres " of Mont Jovet (Savoy)/ By J. W. 

 Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



The following specimens, etc., were exhibited : — 



Eock-specimens and microscope-slides, exhibited by Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, D.Sc, LL.D., F.E.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Eock-specimens and microscope-slides, exhibited by Dr. J. W. 

 Gregory, F.G S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimen of a Lithistid Sponge from the Upper Chalk, found in 

 vol. lii. a 



