Vol. 52.] PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. vii 



February 5th, 1896. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Colonel Charles Kendal Bushe, Bramhope, Blackheath Eoad, Old 

 Charlton, Kent, and John Turner, Esq., Donisthorpe, Ashby-de-la- 

 Zouch, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On the Morte Slates and Associated Beds in North Devon and 

 West Somerset.— Part I.' By Henry Hicks, M.D., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' Evidences of Glacial Action in Australia in Permo-Carboni- 

 ferous Time.' By Prof. T. W. Edgeworth David, B.A., F.G.S. 



The following specimens, maps, and photographs were exhibited : — 



Fossils exhibited by Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., F.G.S., in illus- 

 tration of his paper. 



Fossils from North Devon, exhibited by the Eev. H. H. Win- 

 wood, M.A., F.G.S. ; and specimens of Graptolites, exhibited by 

 John Hopkinson, Esq., F.G.S., in illustration of Dr. Hicks's paper. 



Glaciated boulders, and photographs of the same, exhibited by 

 Prof. T. W. Edgeworth David, B.A., F.G.S., in illustration of his 

 paper. 



Fragment of Boulder from the Carboniferous Boulder Bed of 

 the Panjab Salt-Range, collected by Dr. H. Warth, exhibited by 

 Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.E.S., Treas.G.S. 



Australian auriferous specimens, exhibited by the President on 

 behalf of J. C. F. Johnson, Esq., of South Australia. 



Sheets 20, 21, 26, and 27 of the 1-inch Map with MS. geo- 

 logical work by W. A. E. Ussher, Esq., F.G.S., exhibited by the 

 Director-General of H.M. Geological Survey. 



Photograph of the late Martin Simpson, presented by Arthur 

 Smith Woodward, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



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