CXX PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 896. 



March 11th, 1896. 

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



George C. Bond, Esq., Aspley House, Nottingham ; Sydney 

 Pawns, Esq., F.C.S., 16 Onslow Gardens, S.W. ; and Dr. J. 

 Shearson Hyland, 3 Copthall Buildings, E.C., were elected Fellows 

 of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that, in connexion with the Hungarian 

 Millennial Exhibition, a Congress of Mining and Geology would be 

 held at Budapest on September 25th and 26th, 1896. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'On an Alpine Nickel-bearing Serpentine with Fulgurites.' 

 By Miss E. Aston, B.Sc. With Petrographical Notes by Prof. T. 

 G. Bonney, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.G.S. 



2. ' The Pliocene Glaciation, Pre -Glacial Valleys, and Lake Basins 

 of Subalpine Switzerland ; with a Note on the Microscopic Struc- 

 ture of Tavayanaz Diabasic Tufa.' By C. S. Du Biche Preller, M.A., 

 Ph.D., F.G.S., F.C.S., A.I.M.I.E., M.T.E.E. 



3. ' Notes concerning certain Linear Marks in a Sedimentary 

 llock.' By Prof. J. E. Talmage, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



The following specimens, photographs, and maps were ex- 

 hibited : — 



Specimens and microscope-sections of Alpine Nickel-bearing 

 Serpentine with Fulgurites, exhibited by Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, 

 F.B.S., Y.P.G.S., in illustration of the paper by Miss E. Aston and 

 himself. 



Specimens, photographs, and microscope-section, exhibited by 

 C. S. Du Riche Preller, M.A., Ph.D., F.G.S., in illustration of his 

 paper. 



Specimens and photographs of Linear Marks in an Argillaceous 

 Sandstone, exhibited by Prof. J. E. Talmage, D.Sc, F.G.S. , in 

 illustration of his paper. 



Fossils from the Marine Permian of the Salt Range, India, 

 exhibited by F. G. Brook-Fox, Esq., F.G.S. 



And the following maps presented by the Austro-Hungarian 

 Geological Survey : — Geologische Specialkarte der Umgebung von 

 Wien, von Dionys Stur (in 6 sheets, scale jf^) ; Geologische 

 Karte der ostlichen Auslaufer der Karnischen und Julischen 

 Alpen, von Friedrich Teller (in 4 sheets, scale 7-5055) ; an( i Geo- 

 logische Karte von Olmiitz, von Emil Tietze (scale ^55). 



