6 PKOCEEDES^GS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Casts of Shells from Bagshot Beds (? Upper) in Sandpit at West- 

 street, near Highclere, Hants, exhibited by E. S. Bterries, Esq., 

 P.G.S. 



Specimens from the Eed-Hock Series, exhibited by the Eev. A. 

 Irving, P.(Jr.S., in illustration of his paper. 



January 25, 1888. 



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



Thomas Adair Masey, Esq., Adelaide, Blinman, South Australia, 

 was elected a EeUow of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On Ailurus anglicus, a new Carnivore from the Eed Crag." 

 By Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., E.E.S., E.G.S. 



2. "A Contribution to the Geology and Physical Geography of 

 the Cape Colony." By Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., F.E.S., E.G.S. 



3. "On two new Lepidotoid Ganoids from the early Mesozoic 

 Deposits of Orange Eree State, South Africa." By A. Smith Wood- 

 ward, Esq., E.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimen of Ailurus anglicus from the Eed Crag, Eelixstowe, 

 Suffolk, exhibited by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, E.E.S., E.G.S., on 

 behalf of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, in illustration of his 

 paper. 



Specimen of the skuU of Ailurus fulg ens, Cuv., from iN'ipal, exhi- 

 bited by E. Lydekker, Esq., E.G.S. 



Eock specimens and microscopic sections, exhibited by Prof. A. H. 

 Green, E.E.S., E.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens of ClitJirole]pis Extoni, sp. nov., from the Stormberg 

 beds, Orange Eree State, exhibited by Dr. H. Woodward, E.E.S., 

 E.G.S., on behalf of Dr. H. Exton, E.G.S., in iUustration of the 

 paper by A. Smith Woodward, Esq., E.G.S. 



Eemains of Squatina Cranei, sp. nov., and mandible of Belono- 

 stomus cinctus, Agass., from the Chalk of Sussex, exhibited by Henry 

 Willett, Esq., E.G.S. 



