1XX PROCEEDIXGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I907, 



February 27th, 1907. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, D.C.L., Sc.D., See.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



John Gerrard, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Worsley, Man eh ester ; 

 Thomas "Walter Joyce, Borough Engineer's Office, Dartmouth ; and 

 Lawrence William Kershaw, 62 Yivian Road, Harborne, Birming- 

 ham, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'On the Lower Ordovician Succession in Scandinavia.' 1 By 

 William George Fearnsides, M.A., F.G.S. 



2. 'The Occurrence of Pseudomorphous Pebbles of Pyrites at 

 the Crown-Reef Mine (Witwatersrand).' x By Cuthbert Baring 

 Horwood, A.R.S.M., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S. 



The following specimens, maps, etc., were exhibited : — 



Rock-specimens and fossils from the Lower Ordovician of 

 Scandinavia, exhibited by W. G. Fearnsides, M.A., F.G.S., in 

 illustration of his paper. 



Specimens containing pseudomorphous pebbles of pyrites from 

 the Crown-Reef Mine (Wit.watersrand), exhibited by C. B. 

 Horwood, A.R.S.M., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S., in illustration of 

 his paper. 



A recent specimen of Beryx splendens, bought in the London 

 Market, probably from the coast of Portugal, a near ally of the 

 Cretaceous fishes now known as Hoplopteryx, exhibited by E. T. 

 Newton, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Geological Survey of England &. Wales : 1-inch map, n.s. 

 Sheet 311— Wellington (Drift) by W. A. E. Ussher (colour- 

 printed), presented by the Director of H.M. Geological Survey. 



Geologic Atlas of the United States Geological Survey : 

 Folios 136-140, 1906, presented by the Director of that Survey. 



Geological map, in two sheets, 1 inch = 4 miles, 1906, from the 

 Victoria History of the Counties of England : Devon, vol. i, 

 executed and presented by W. A. E. Ussher. 



Royal Hungarian Geological Survey: 75000 g ecuo oi ca l ma P — 

 Krassova & Teregova, by L. Roth, F. Schafarzik, K. von Adda, & 

 J. Bockh, 1903, presented by the Director of that Survey. 



Withdrawn by permission of the Council. 



