PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 7 



February 8, 1888. 



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



William Duncan, Esq., 25 Tavistock Eoad, London, W. ; Alex- 

 ander M'^Kay, Esq., T^ew Zealand Geological Survey, Wellington, 

 New Zealand ; James Park, Esq., New Zealand Geological Survey, 

 Wellington, New Zealand ; and Eredcrick Wilkinson, Esq., 2 Yernon 

 Street, Bolton, Lancashire, were elected Eellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On some Remains of Squatina Cranei, sp. nov., and the 

 Mandible of Belonostomus cinctus, from the Chalk of Sussex, pre- 

 served in the Collection of Henry Willett, Esq., E.G.S., Brighton 

 Museum." By A. Smith Woodward, Esq., E.G.S. 



2. " On the History and Characters of the Genus Septastrcea, 

 D'Orbigny (1849), and the Identity of its Type Species with that of 

 Olyphastrcea^ Duncan (1887)." By George Jennings Hinde, Ph.D., 



E.G.S. 



3. "On the Examination of Insoluble Eesidues obtained from the 

 Carboniferous Limestone at Clifton." By E. Wethered, Esq., E.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



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

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

 Willett, Esq., E.G.S., in illustration of the paper by A. Smith 

 Woodward, Esq., E.G.S. 



Specimens of Septastrcea Forhesi, belonging to the Scarborough 

 Museum, exhibited by C. Eox Strangways, Esq., E.G.S., in illus- 

 tration of Dr. Hinde's paper. 



Specimens of Septastrcea Forhesi, E. & H., of Astrcea? mary- 

 landica, Conrad, and Astrcea ? bella, Conrad, from the Tertiaries of 

 the United States, exhibited, by permission of Prof. Angelo Heil- 

 prin, of Philadelphia, by Dr. G. J. Hinde, E.G.S., in illustration of 

 his paper. 



Photographs and microscopic specimens, exhibited by E. Weth- 

 ered, Esq., E.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Glassy Yolcanic Bombs which float on water, picked up 15 miles 

 from Mount Tarawera, New Zealand, after the outburst of June 

 1886, exhibited by H. B. Armstrong, Esq., B.A., E.G.S. 



