6 PEOCEEDTNGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Rock-specimens and Microscopic sections exhibited by the Rev. 

 Edwin Hill, M.A., F.G.S., and Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, P.R.S., 

 Y.P.G.S., in illustration of their paper. 



Rock-specimens and Microscopic sections exhibited by J. R. 

 Dakyns, Esq., M.A., and J. J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A., E.R.S., F.G.S., 

 in illustration of their paper, by permission of the Director-General 

 of the Geological Survey. 



February 10th, 1892. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Richard Fuge Grantham, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Northumberland 

 Chambers, Northumberland Avenue, W.C., was elected a Fellow of 

 the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "The Raised Beaches, and 'Head' or Rubble Drift of the 

 South of England : their relation to the Yalley Drifts and to the 

 Glacial Period ; and on a late post-Glacial Submergence. — Part I." 

 By Joseph Prestwich, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. " The Olenellus-ZonQ in the North- West Highlands." By 

 B. N. Peach, Esq., F.R.S.E., F.G.S., and J. Home, Esq., F.R.S.E., 

 F.G.S. (Communicated by permission of the Director-General of 

 the Geological Survey.) 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens of Olenellus LcqnvortJii, Peach, from the ' Serpulite 

 Grit ' and ' Fucoid Beds ' below the Durness Limestone of Ross- 

 shire, exhibited by B. N. Peach, Esq., F.R.S.E., F.G.S., in illustra- 

 tion of his and Mr. Home's paper, by permission of the Director- 

 General of the Geological Survey. 



Models illustrating the present and past conditions of the Geology 

 of the Highlands, including the Glaciers and their effects, by Major 

 R. T. W. L. Brickenden, F.G.S. 



Specimen of Mica from the McDonnell Range, Central Australia ; 

 Asbestos from near Broken Hill, New South Wales ; and Quartz- 

 crystals from Quartz-reef ' track,' Bendigo, Yictoria, exhibited by 

 Wm. Nicholas, Esq., F.G.S. 



