XC1V PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [June I913, 



next August. He added ihat every endeavour is being used to 

 make the Congress a success, and that excursions have been 

 arranged to almost every accessible part of the Dominion. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Variation of Planorhis multiformis Broun.' By George 

 Hickling, D.Sc, F.G.S., Lecturer in Palseontology & Demonstrator 

 in Geology in the Victoria University of Manchester. 



2. 'The Structure and Relationships of the Carbonicolce.' By 

 Miss M. Colley March, M.Sc. (Communicated by Dr. G. Hickling, 

 F.G.S.) 



Lantern-slides were exhibited by Dr. G. Hickling, F.G.S., in 

 illustration of his paper. 



A Special General Meeting was held at 7.45 p.m. (before the 

 Ordinary Meeting), at which 



(1) the retirement on pension of the Assistant-Librarian, Mr. William 



Eupert Jones, was sanctioned ; and 



(2) the appointment as Assistant- Clerk of Mr. Maurice St. John Hope 



was confirmed. 



April 23rd, 1913. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Thomas Dewhurst, Assoc.R.C.S., 131 Rectory Road, Burnley 

 (Lancashire) ; George Sheppard, Lecturer in Geology at the 

 Hull Technical College, Sunny Bank, Withernsea (Yorkshire) ; 

 Alfred Leo Simon, Ph.D., Arundel, The Park, Sidcup (Kent); 

 Herbert Edward Taylor, 31 Mysore Road, Lavender Hill, Bat- 

 tersea, S.W. ; David Thomas, c/o the Institution of Mining & 

 Metallurgy, Salisbury House, E.C. ; and Douglas Graeme Williams, 

 Downderry, Crawstone Road South, "Westcliff-on-Sea (Essex), were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



Prof. Dr. Emile Haug, Paris, and Dr. Per Johan Holmquist, 

 Stockholm, were elected Foreign Correspondents of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Prof. E. Hull described the large chart of the North Atlantic 

 Ocean which was hung on the wall. This chart had been prepared 

 to illustrate the paper which he had read at the Meeting of the 

 International Zoological Congress held at Monaco in March, to 

 show the mode of migration of animals by land-connexion between 

 Europe and the American Continent, due to the great uplift of the 



