PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 3 



Specimens and photographs exhibited by Prof. T. M^Kenny 

 Hughes, M.A., F.G.S., in ilhistration of his paper. 



Sketches by C. E. Do Ranee, Esq., E.G.S., and photographs and 

 diagrams, exhibited by Dr. H. Hicks, P.G.S., in illustration of his 

 remarks on the Cae-Gwyn Cave. 



A Special General Meeting of the Society was held at 8 p.m., 

 when the following Resolution was passed : — " That this Meeting 

 authorizes the payment of the bills for cleaning, repairing, and 

 redecorating the Society's House, amounting in all to £512 Is. Gd., 

 and sanctions the sale of such an amount of Stock as may be 

 necessary for that purpose." 



December 7, 1887. 



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



Alfred Edward Carey, Esq., M. Inst. C.E., 9 Dean's Yard, West- 

 minster, S.W. ; Walter E. Eerrier, Esq., Montreal, Canada ; Howard 

 Pox, Esq., Falmouth ; Thomas Freeman, Jun., Esq., St. Augustine's, 

 Florence, Stoke-on-Trent ; William Home, Esq., Leyburn, York- 

 shire ; Harold Macandrew, Esq., 8 Nevern Square, Earl's Court, 

 S.W. ; Charles Edward iS'ewton, Esq., 17 Cooper Street, Manchester; 

 Charles Champion Rawlins, Esq., Armadale, near Melbourne, Vic- 

 toria ; Joseph Gurdon Leycester Stephenson, Esq., Assoc. M. Inst. 

 C.E., 6 Drapers Gardens, E.C. ; William Thomas, Esq., Tuckingmill, 

 Camborne, Cornwall ; and Herbert Frederick Tomalin, Esq., Colombo, 

 Ceylon, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " A Letter from H.M. Secretary of State for the Colonies, 

 enclosing an account of recent Discoveries of Gold in the Trans- 

 vaal." 



The deposits in which gold has been found, locally known as 

 " banket," consist of a quartz-conglomerate forming so-called " reefs," 

 which traverse the veldt parallel to, but at a short distance from, 

 the rocky ridge of Witwatersrand. These masses always dip to the 

 south, but at angles varying from 30° up to 90°. The " reefs " are 

 believed to have been discovered by Mr. Struben, an English gentle- 

 man long resident in the country. The " main reef "has been traced 

 for twenty-five or thirty miles, and varies in breadth from 3 feet 

 6 inches to 15 feet; parallel and branching "reefs" of smaller 

 dimensions have also been found. The yield of gold is said to be 



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