CXXxii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Aug. I906, 



3. ' The Phosphatic Chalks of Winterbourne and Boxford 

 (Berkshire)/ By Harold J. Osborne White, F.G.S., and Llewellyn 

 Treacher, F.G.S. 



The following specimens and map were exhibited : — 



Trilobites and graptolites from Bolivia, exhibited by Dr. J. W. 

 Evans, LL.B., F.G.S., in illustration of the papers by P. Lake, 

 M.A., F.G.S., and Miss E. M. E. Wood, D.So. 



Specimens of Phosphatic Chalk, exhibited by H. J. 0. White, 

 F.G.S., and LI. Treacher, F.G.S. , in illustration of their paper. 



Geological Map of the Pretoria District, on the scale of 2 miles to 

 the inch, by H. Kynaston, A. L. Hall, and F. A. Steart, presented 

 by the Director of the Transvaal Geological Survey. 



May 9th, 1906. 

 Aubrey Strahan, M.A., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



William Atwood Tregaskis Davies, Bulong (Western Australia) ; 

 and Walter Johnson, 9 Lavender Eoad, Clapham Junction, S.W., 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Chairman read, on behalf of the Council, a letter of con- 

 dolence addressed by the Foreign Secretary to the Swiss Geological 

 Society on the loss of Prof. Eugene Benevier, For. Memb. G.S., whose 

 death was the result of an accident which took place only a few 

 days before the proposed celebration of his professorial jubilee at 

 Lausanne University. 



The Chairman announced that the Council had resolved to award 

 the Proceeds of the Daniel-Pidgeon Fund for 1906 to Miss Helen 

 Drew, Newnham College, Cambridge, who proposes to examine the 

 relationship of the Caradoc and Llandovery rocks in South Wales, 

 between the Llandeilo and Fishguard districts. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. The Eruption of Vesuvius in April 1906.' By Prof. Giuseppe 

 de Lorenzo, For.Corr.G.S. 



2. 'The Ordovician Eocks of Western Caermarthenshire.' By 

 David Cledlyn Evans, F.G.S. 



