Vol. 52.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETF. CXxiii 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' Descriptions of New Fossils from the Carboniferous Lime- 

 stone. — I. On Pemmatites constipatus, sp. nov., a Lithistid Sponge. 

 II. On Palceacis humilis, sp. nov., a new Perforate Coral ; with 

 Remarks on the Genus. III. On the Jaw-apparatus of an Annelid, 

 Eunicites Heidice, sp. nov.' By George Jennings Hinde, Ph.D., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. 'The Eocene Deposits of Dorset.' By Clement Reid, Esq., 

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

 General of H.M. Geological Survey.) 



3. ' Discovery of Mammalian Remains in the Old River-gravels 

 of the Derwent near Derby.' — Part I. By H. H. Arnold-Bemrose, 

 Esq., M.A., F.G.S. Part II. By R. M. Deeley, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens and microscope-sections of Fossils from the Carboni- 

 ferous Limestone, exhibited by Dr. G. J. Hinde, F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 in illustration of his paper. 



A series of Pebbles from the Reading and Bagshot Beds of Dorset, 

 exhibited by Clement Reid, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., in illustration of 

 his paper. 



Mammalian Remains (Hippopotamus, Elephas, and Rhinoceros) 

 from the old River-gravel at Allenton, near Derby, exhibited by 

 H. H. Arnold-Bemrose, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., and R. M. Deeley, Esq., 

 F.G.S., in illustration of their paper. 



May 13th, 1896. 

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



J. McClelland Henderson, Ph.D., Box 1146, Johannesburg, S.A.R.; 

 James Gunson Lawn, Esq., 7 Amerland Road, Wandsworth, S.W. : 

 and Thomas Wilkins, Esq., 19 Lyndhurst Road, S.E., were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' An Account of a Head or Gateway driven into the Eastern 

 Boundary-fault of the South Staffordshire Coal Field.' By William 

 Farnworth, Esq., F.G.S. 



