iv PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [March 1913, 



Maurice Albion Ockenden, The Wigwam, Sanderstead (Surrey) ; 

 Kiran Kumar Sengupta, M.A., B.Sc, Geologist to the Cochiu 

 State, Trichur, Cochin State (Southern India); Hugh Hamshaw 

 Thomas, M.A., Curator of the Botanical Museum, Cambridge, 

 41 Owlstone Road, Cambridge ; and James Mann Wordie, B.A., 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, were elected Fellows of the Society. 

 Prof. Dr. Johannes Walther, Halle an der Saale, was elected a 

 foreign Member of the Society ; Prof. Dr. Karl Diener, Yienna ; 

 Prof. Fusakichi Omori, Tokyo ; and Prof. Dr. Ernst Weinschenk, 

 Munich, were elected Foreign Correspondents of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communication was read : — 



' On the Discovery of a Palaeolithic Human Skull and Mandible 

 in a Flint-bearing Gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) 

 at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex).' By Charles Dawson, F.S.A., 

 F.G.S., and Arthur Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 Sec.G.S. With an Appendix by Prof. Grafton Elliot Smith, M.D., 

 F.R.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens of flint-implements from Piltdown and other localities, 

 exhibited by C. Dawson, F.S.A., F.G.S. ; and skull and mandible 

 from the Piltdown gravel-bed, with casts and restoration of the 

 same, exhibited by Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, F.P.S., F.L.S., 

 Sec.G.S., in illustration of their paper. 



Plaster casts of human and simian brain-cases, exhibited by 

 Prof. G. Elliot Smith, M.D., F E.S. 



Specimens of Mastodon from the Pliocene Cave, Doveholes 

 (Derbyshire), exhibited by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. 



January 8th, 1913. 



Dr. Aubrey Strahan, F.B.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following Fellows of the Society, nominated by the Council, 

 were elected Auditors of the Society's Accounts for the preceding 

 year : Henry A. Allen and Henry Dewey. 



