Ixxvi PKOCEEDLXGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Aug. I907, 



May 15th, 1907. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, D.C.L., Sc.D., Sec.B.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



George Guillaume Andre, Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., Bosemount, 

 Frittenden (Kent) ; Frederic Ernest Coe, c/o The Bank of Africa, 

 Johannesburg (Transvaal) ; Arthur Leighton Finch, B.Sc. (Lond.), 

 Widnes Secondary School, Appleton Road, Widnes ; Cecil Sidney 

 Ramsden, M.Inst.M.E., Park Hill, Worsley, near Manchester ; 

 and Edwin James Yallentine, Fairlight, Forest Road, Chingford 

 (Essex), were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that the Council had resolved to 

 award the Proceeds of the Daniel-Pidgeon Fund for 1907 to 

 Miss Ida L. Slatee, B.A. (Dublin), jSTewnham College, Cambridge, 

 who proposes to investigate the Lower Palaeozoic rocks in the 

 neighbourhood of Llandeilo. 



The following communication was read : — 



' On the Origin of certain Canon-like Yalleys associated with 

 Lake-like Areas of Depression/ By Frederic William Harmer, 

 F.G.S., F.B.Met.S. 



The following maps, etc. were exhibited : — 



MS. maps and lantern-slides, exhibited by F. W. Harmer, F.G.S., 

 F.B.Met.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Coloured Ordnance-Survey Maps of four Counties, exhibited by 

 Prof. W. W. Watts, M.A., M.Sc, F.B.S., Sec.G.S. 



Four sheets of the Geological-Survey 6-inch Map of Cumberland, 

 presented by the Director of H.M. Geological Survey. 



A photograph of the James D. Dana Monument, Dana Park, 

 Albany (N.Y.), presented by Prof. J. M. Clarke, LL.D., F.C.G.S. 



At a Special General, Meeting, held at 7.30 p.m., the proposed 

 JN T ew Section of the Bye-Laws instituting Lady-Associates was 

 rejected by 34 votes to 32. 



The following proposed Alterations in the Bye-Laws were 

 authorized — (a) unanimously, and (b) by 45 votes to 13 : — 



(a) That Bye-Law VI, Art. 4 be repealed, and the following substituted : — 



' Every Fellow, if elected before the 30th of June, shall be subject 

 to the Contribution for the current year ; but, if elected in November 

 or December, he shall pay no Contribution nor shall he be entitled to 

 receive the Publications for the current year.' 



.(b) That in Bye-Law XIII, Art. 18 ' and by cheques other Members' be 



repealed, and the following substituted: — 



' and by cheques drawn and signed in such manner as the Council 

 shall direct.' 



