2 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ISTovember 18, 1885. 



Prof. T. a. BoNisTET, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Henry M. Ami, Esq., M.A., Assistant Palaeoutologist, Geological 

 Survey of Canada, Ottawa, and E. Mountford Deeley, Esq., 1 Mill 

 Hill Eoad, Derby, were elected Eellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



A specimen of Astroeoenia gibhosa was presented to the Museum 

 by Prof. P. Martin Duncan, E.E.S., P.G.S., illustrating his paper 

 read on the 4th inst. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Results of Eecent Eesearches in some Bone-caves in North 

 Wales (Fynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn)." By Henry Hicks, M.D., 

 E.E.S., E.G.S.'; with Notes on the Animal Eemains, by W. Davies, 

 Esq., E.G.S., of the British Museum (Nat. History). 



2. " On the Occurrence of the Crocodilian Genus Tomistoma in 

 the Miocene of the Maltese Islands." Bv E. Lydekker, Esq., B.A., 

 P.G.S. 



3. " Description of the Cranium of a new Species of Erinaceus 

 from the Upper Miocene of (Eningen." By E. Lydekker, Esq., 

 B.A., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Cast of part of the skull of Tomistoma champsoides (Owen), 

 exhibited by E. Lydekker, Esq., in illustration of his paper. 



Cast of part of the skull of Phascolomys curvirostris, Ow., exhibited 

 by Sir E. Owen, K.C.B., in illustration of his paper read on the 

 4th inst. 



Series of specimens of bones &c. from the Cae Gwyn and Eynnon 

 Beuno Caves, exhibited by Dr. H. Hicks, in illustration of his paper. 



Eecent bones of Horse which have been split and gnawed by 

 Hysenas in the Zoological Society's Gardens, exhibited by Prof. W. 

 Boyd Dawkins. 



December 2, 1885. 



Prof. T. G. BoNNEY, D.Sc, LL.D., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Charles Dawson, Esq., Hastings ; Francis J. Ede, Esq., Silchar, 

 Cachar, India ; Lewis Edmunds, D.Sc. Lond., B.A., LL.B., 8 Grafton 

 Street, Bond Street, W. ; Henry A. Gordon, Esq., Department of 



