86 PEOCEEDIKGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCLETT. 



The President also announced that it was proposed to build, iff 

 memory of the late Mr, Champernowne, a moderate-sized cottage- 

 hospital in Totnes. Mr. Champernowne was greatly interested in a 

 temporary hospital, erected in 1885, and was anxious that a per- 

 manent institution should be established for the same purpose. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Gneissic Rocks off the Lizard." By Howard Fox,. 

 Esq., P.G.S. "With IS^tes on Specimens by J. J. H. Teall, Esq., 

 M.A., E.G.S. 



2. "The Monian System." By the Eev. J. E. Blake, M.A.,. 

 F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Eock-specimens and microscopic sections, exhibited by the Eev. 

 J. E. Blake, E.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Eock-specimens and microscopic sections, exhibited by Howard 

 Eox, Esq., F.G.S., and J. J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A., E.G.S., in illus- 

 tration of their paper. 



March 28, 1888. 



W. T. Blaxeoed, LL.D., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Henry Glenny, Esq., Ballarat, Yictoria, Australia ; Christian 

 Horrebow Homan, Esq., Christiania, jSTorway ; Henry John Marten, 

 Esq., M.Inst.C.E., The Birches, Codsall, Wolverhampton, and 4 

 Storey^s Gate, Great George Street, S.W. ; Henry John Spooner, 

 Esq., Assoc.Memb.Inst.C.E., 309 Eegent Street, W. ; A. Xormau 

 Tate, Esq., 9 Hackins Hey, Liverpool ; and James George Wood, 

 Esq., M.A., LL.B., 8 Lansdowne Crescent, W., and 7 jS'ew Square, 

 Lincoln's Inn, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On some Eroded Agate Pebbles from the Soudan." By 

 Prof. Y. Ball, M.A., E.E.S., E.G.S. 



2. "On the Probable Mode of Transport of the Fragments of 

 Granite and other Eocks which are found imbedded in the Carboni- 

 ferous Limestone of the neighbourhood of Dublin." By Prof. V. 

 Ball, M.A., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



3. " The Upper Eocene, comprising the Barton and Upper Bag- 

 shot Formations." Bv J. Starkie Gardner, Esq., F.G.S., Henry 

 Keeping, Esq., and H. W. Monckton, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



