Vol. 63.] PROCEEDINGS 07 TUT. GEOLOGICAL SOCLE1T. 



December 5th, 1906. 



Sir Archibald Gelkie, D.C.L., Sc.D., Sec. U.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Capt. Henry Alford, Dalcross Castle (Inverness-shire) ; Stanley 

 Claude Bailey, Assoc. M.Inst. C.E., The Laurels, Banstead Road, 

 Ewell (Surre} T ) ; Benjamin Alfred Baker, 11 Westbury Park, 

 Durdham Down, Bristol ; Asok Bose, c/o Messrs. Thomas Cook & 

 Son, London ; Moses Bruines Cotsworth, Acomb, York; Samuel 

 Rennie Haselhurst, B.Sc, Lecturer in Geology & Geography, 14 

 Edith Street, Tynemouth ; Douglas R. Home, 30 Lexham Gardens, 

 W. ; H. Cecil Jones, Geological Survey of India, Calcutta ; William 

 John Lakeland, Hsipau, Northern Shan States (Upper Burma) ; 

 Frederic Maurice Lavanchy, 30 St. Augustine's Avenue, Croydon ; 

 Guy Pilgrim, B.Sc, Geological Survey of India, Calcutta; William 

 Edmund Francis Powney, Chief Chemist to the Egyptian Govern- 

 ment, c/o G. T. Holloway, 57 Chancery Lane, W.C. ; and Arthur 

 Beeby Thompson, A.M.I.Mech.E., Leadenhall Buildings, Leadenhal] 

 Street, E.C., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On the Geological Conditions which have contributed to the 

 Success of the Artesian Boring for Water at Lincoln.' By Prof. 

 Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' Notes on the Raised Beaches of Taltal (Northern Chile).' 

 By Oswald Hardey Evans, F.G.S. 



The following specimens, etc. were exhibited : — 



Specimens from the Lincoln boring, exhibited by Percy Griffith, 

 M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S., in illustration of Prof. E. Hull's paper. 



Specimens and drawings, exhibited by 0. H. Evans, F.G.S., in 

 illustration of his paper. 



International Geological Congress Map of North America, and 

 lantern-slides illustrative of the Excursions of the International 

 Geological Congress, Mexico, 1906, exhibited by Maurice M. Allorge, 

 Lie. es Sc, F.G.S. 



