1 1 8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On Glacial Shell-beds in British Columbia." By G. W. 

 Lamplugh, Esq. Communicated by Clement Reid, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. " On a Lower Jaw of Machcerodus from the ' Eorest-bed,' 

 Kessingland." By James Backhouse, Esq., F.G.S. 



3. " A Contribution to the History of the Cetacea of the Norfolk 

 'Eorest-bed.' " By E. TuUey Newton, Esq., E.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



A series of Plant-remains from the Cromer Eorest-bed, exhibited 

 by Clement Reid, Esq., E.G.S. 



Specimens from the Shell-beds in British Columbia, exhibited by 

 G. W. Lamplugh, Esq., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens from the "Eorest-bed " exhibited by James Backhouse, 

 Esq., E.G.S., and E. Tulley Newton, Esq., E.G.S., in illustration of 

 their papers. 



April 21, 1886. 



Prof. J. W. Jtjdd, E.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Henry Eisher, Esq., 30 Abingdon Street, Blackpool ; Frederick 

 Edwin Harman, Esq., care of Messrs. Dunster and Chapman, 

 1 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square ; Henry Johnson, Esq., Trindle 

 Koad, Dudley ; Edward AUoway Pankhurst, Esq., 12 Clifton Road, 

 fcghton ; and Henry Woolcock, Esq., Memb. Inst. C.E., Rickerby 

 House, St. Bees, near Carnforth, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced the changes made in the Staff of the 

 Society, and the appointment of Mr. Francis E. Brown as an 

 Assistant. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. *'0n a certain Fossiliferous Pebble-band in the 'Olive group' 

 of the Eastern Salt Range, Punjab." By A. B. Wynne, Esq., E.G.S. 



2. " On the Phosphatic Beds in the Neighbourhood of Mons." 

 By M. F. L. Cornet, For.Corr.G.S. 



