PROCEEDINGS 



0^ THE 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1887-88. 



November 9, 1887. 

 Prof. J. ^Y. JuDD, E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



James Harvey Hichens, Esq., M.A., Eadley School, Radley, near 

 Abingdon, was elected a Fellow, and Professor J. P. Lesley, of 

 Philadelphia, a Foreign Member of the Society. 



The list of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President read the following communication from the 

 Home Secretary : — 



" Whitehall, 



July 22, 1887. 

 "SlE, 



I have had the Honour to lay before the Queen the loyal 

 and dutiful Address of the President, Council, and Fellows of the 

 Geological Society of London on the occasion of Her Majesty attain- 

 ing the Fiftieth year of Her Reign. And 1 have to inform you 

 that Her Majesty was pleased to receive the same very graciously. 



I have the Honour to be, 



Sir, 

 Your obedient Servant, 



Hei^et Matthews." 

 " The President of 

 The Geological Society of London, 

 Burlington House, W," 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Note on the so-called ' Soapstone ' of Fiji." By Henry B. 

 Brady, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



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