Vol. 52.] PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. CX1X 



February 26th, 1896. 



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



AVilliam Griffith, Esq., Waterloo Hotel, Aberystwith, South 

 Wales ; Joseph Colin Francis Johnson, Esq., J.P., Adelaide, and 

 Constitutional Club, London ; Peter MacLaren, Esq., 352 St. Vincent 

 Street, Glasgow ; and Edwin Perkins Ridley, Esq., 6 Paget Road, 

 Ipswich, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'On the Structure of the Plesiosaurian Skull.' By Charles W. 

 Andrews, Esq., B.Sc., F.G.S. 



2. ' On certain Granophyres, modified by the Incorporation of 

 Gabbro Fragments, in Strath (Skye).' By Alfred Harker, Esq., 

 M.A., F.G.S. (Communicated by permission of the Director- 

 General of H.M. Geological Survey.) 



3. ' Observations on the Geology of the Nile Valley, and on the 

 Evidence of the greater Volume of that River at a former Period.' 

 By Prof. E. Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



4. 'The Fauna of the Keisley Limestone. — Part L' By F. R. 

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



The following specimens, maps, and photographs were ex- 

 hibited : — 



Cast of Skull of Plesiosaurus macrocephalus, Buckland, exhibited 

 by C. W. Andrews, Esq., B.Sc, F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens of Granophyres from Strath (Skye), exhibited by 

 Alfred Harker, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Fossils from the Keisley Limestone of Westmoreland, exhibited by 

 F. R. Cowper Reed, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper' 



Human Skull, found about 6 feet beneath the surface, not far 

 from the banks of the Wye, somewhat below the city of Hereford, 

 exhibited by the Rev. J. 0. Bevan, F.G.S. 



Geological Survey of England and Wales, New Series, 1-inch 

 Map (Solid and Drift) Sheet 249, Newport (Mon.), by A. Strahan 

 and W. Gibson, 1895, presented by the Director-General of H.M. 

 Geological Survey. 



Photographs of Stratified Volcanic Ash at Tantallon Castle, and 

 of Boulders from the Bagshot District, etc., exhibited by Horace W. 

 Monckton, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



