6 PKOCEEDIIirGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



January 27, 1886. 



Prof. T. G. BoifNET, D.Sc, LL.D., P.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



H. Kirby Atkinson, Esq., 89 Camberwell Kew Eoad, S.E., was 

 elected a Pellow, and Professor Gustav Tschermak of Vienna, a 

 Foreign Member of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following name of a Fellow of the Society was read out for 

 the second time in conformity with the Bye-laws Sec. YI. B, Art. 6, 

 in consequence of the non-payment of the arrears of his contribu- 

 tions : — E. C. Porster, Esq. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Possil Mammalia of Maragha, in Korth-western 

 Persia." By E. Lydekker, Esq., B.A., P.G.S., &c. 



2. "On the Pliocene of Maragha, Persia, and its resemblance to 

 that of Pikermi, in Greece ; on Eossil Elephant-remains of Caucasia 

 and Persia ; and on the results of a Monograph of the Fossil Ele- 

 phants of Germany and Italy." By Dr. H. Pohlig. Communicated 

 by Dr. G. J. Hinde, F.G.S. 



3. " The Thames-valley Surface-deposits of the Ealing District, 

 and their associated Palaeolithic Floors." By John Allen Brown, 

 Esq., F.E.G.S. Communicated by A. Eamsay, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Fossil bones and Palaeolithic flints, from Ealing, Hanwell, &c., 

 exhibited by J. Allen Brown, Esq., in illustration of his paper. 



February 10, 1886. 



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



"Walter Joseph Baker, Esq., 160 a Southwark Bridge Eoad, S.E. ; 

 Eobert Law, Esq., Holhngworth, Walsden, Todmorden ; William 

 Stert Milnes, Esq., Woodstock, Grove Park, Lee, S.E.: and Edward 

 John Silcock, Esq., 1 Eidge Mount, Cliff Eoad, Leeds, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On a new Species of Psilotites from the Lanarkshire Coal- 

 field." By E. Kidston, Esq., F.G.S.* 



2. "The Melbourn Eock and the Zone of Belemnitella plena, 

 from Cambridge to the Chiltern Hills." By W. Hill, Esq., F.G.S., 

 and A. J, Jukes-Browne, Esq., F.G.S. 



* This paper has been withdrawn by permission of the Council. 



