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The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Eroded Agate Pebbles from the Soudan, and Specimens of Car- 

 boniferous (Encrinital) Limestone from near Dublin containing 

 fragments of Granite, Quartz, and Schist, exhibited by Prof. Valen- 

 tine Ball, F.R.S,, F.G.S., in illustration of his papers. 



Specimens of SjairopJiyton cauda-galli, Yanux., from the Car- 

 boniferous Limestone of Scotland, exhibited by R. Kidston, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



Fossils from the Upper (?) Bagshot Beds, Penwood Railway- 

 cutting, Highclere, Hants, exhibited by R. S. Herries, Esq., F.G.S. 



Ironstone nodules containing sand, from the Lower Greensand, 

 Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey, exhibited by J. F, La Trobe Bateman, 

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



April 11, 1888. 



W. T. Blai^pord, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



William Wild Clarke, Esq., care of H. Byron, Esq., Victoria Ar- 

 cade, Auckland, New Zealand ; George Hodson,Esq.,Memb.Inst.C.E., 

 Regent Cottage, Loughborough, Leicestershire ; Rev. Thomas 

 Enraght Lindsay, B.A., The College, Epsom, Surrey ; Tom Kirke 

 Rose, Esq., 94 Camberwell Grove, S.E. ; and Anthony Taaffe, 

 Esq., 3 Prince's Terrace, Kensington Gardens, were elected Fellows ; 

 Prof. Pierre J. van Beneden, Louvain, a Foreign Member ; and 

 Dr. Edward S. Dana, Yale College, Newhaven, Conn., and M. Ernest 

 Van den Broeck, Foreign Correspondents of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Lower Beds of the Upper Cretaceous Series in Lin- 

 colnshire and Yorkshire." By W. Hill, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. " On the Cae-Cwyn Cave, North Wales." By Henry Hicks, 

 M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., with an Appendix by C. E. De Rancc, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens exhibited by W. Hill, Esq., F.G.S., in illustration of 

 his paper. 



Photographs and specimens, exhibited by Dr. H. Hicks, F.R.S., 

 F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Additional specimens of ConocorypJie viola^ H. Woodw., obtained 

 by Prof. J. J. Dobbie from the Llanberis green slates, Bangor, 

 exhibited bv Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., V.P.G.S. 



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