CXXVi PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Aug. 1 896, 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On Foliated Granites and their Relations to the Crystalline 

 Schists in Eastern Sutherland.' By J. Home, Esq., F.R.S.E., 

 F.G.S., and E. Greenly, Esq., F.G.S. (Communicated by permission 

 of the Director-General of H.M. Geological Survey.) 



2. 'The Geology of the Eastern Corner of Anglesey/ By E. 

 Greenly, Esq., F.G.S. 



3. ' Seismic Phenomena in the British Empire.' By M. F. 

 de Montessus de Ballore, Captain of Fortress Artillery at Belle-Ile- 

 en-Mer. (Translated by L. L. Belinfante, B.Sc, B. es L. Com- 

 municated by Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc, F.R.S.) 



The following specimens, etc., were exhibited : — 



Bock-specimens from Eastern Sutherland, with microscope- 

 sections, exhibited by J". Home, Esq., F.R.S.E., F.G.S., and 

 E. Greenly, Esq., F\G.S., in illustration of their paper. 



Microscope-sections and rock-specimens from East Anglesey, with 

 photographs and 6-inch map, exhibited by E. Greenly, Esq., F.G.S., 

 in illustration of his paper. 



Tooth of Oestracion rugosus from the Upper Chalk, Strood, 

 Rochester, exhibited by G. E. Dibley, Esq., F.G.S. 



June 24th, 1896. 

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



The President said: It is with deep regret that I have to 

 announce to you the death of our dear and much-beloved friend, 

 Sir Joseph Prestwich. He was elected into the Society in the year 

 1833, and we had come to look upon him as the father of our 

 Society. He served it as Treasurer and President, and was one of 

 its Wollaston Medallists, and we feel that by his death our Society 

 loses one of its truest friends. He always gave us of his best, and 

 delighted to communicate his knowledge to his fellow-workers. He 

 was in every respect a typical representative of our Society and its 

 objects, for he passionately loved the science, fearlessly maintained 

 what he believed to be the truth, and had that open mind and 

 craving for knowledge which have ever characterized the best and 



