IV PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. 1 896. 



Oakfield, Langley Avenue, Surbiton ; W. T. Tucker, Esq., Parkside, 

 Loughborough, Leicestershire ; David John Williams, Esq., Science 

 Master, County and Technical School, Narberth, South Wales ; and 

 Erancis Wood, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., 8 Bond Terrace, Wakefield, 

 Yorks., were elected Fellows ; Prof. G. K. Gilbert, Washington, 

 D.C., was elected a Foreign Member ; and Dr. A. Penck, Vienna, 

 was elected a Foreign Correspondent of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Mr. H. B. Woodward called the attention of the Society to 

 advance copies of certain maps exhibited by the Director-General 

 of the Geological Survey. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. * The Tertiary Basalt-plateaux of North-western Europe/ By 

 Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc, LL.D., F.E.S. 



2. ' The British Silurian Species of Acidaspis.' By Philip Lake, 

 Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



The following objects were exhibited : — 



A series of specimens and microscopic slides illustrating the rocks 

 of the Inner Hebrides and St. Kilda ; and a collection of photo- 

 graphs, sketches, diagrams, and maps, depicting the geological 

 structure of these islands and the Faroe Isles, also a MS. geological 

 map (6-inch scale) of the island of Canna. Exhibited by Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie, D.Sc, LL.D., F.B.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens of Acidaspis, some exhibited by Philip Lake, Esq., 

 M.A., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper, and others exhibited by 

 the Director-General of H.M. Geological Survey, in illustration of 

 the same paper. 



Advance copies of the Geological Survey Index Map, Sheet 11, 

 and of a new edition (printed in colours) of Sheet 12 ; copies of 

 Sheet 249 (Drift and Solid), being the first map of the New Survey 

 of the South Wales Coal-field ; also a MS. copy of Sheet 81 (Raasay 

 and portion of Skye). Exhibited by the Director-General of H.M. 

 Geological Survey. 



Sheet 341, New Series, 1-inch map (with Drift), West Fleet 

 (Dorset). By A. Strahan, 1895. Presented by the Director-General 

 of H.M. Geological Survey. 



