'ROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [June 19 1 3, 



May 7th, 1913. 



Dr. Aubrey Strahan, F.E.S., President; 

 and afterwards W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., in the Chair. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Bathonian llocks of the Oxford District.' By M. Odling, 

 M.A., B.Sc., F.G.S. 



2. ' On the Petrology of the Kalgoorlie Goldfield (Western 

 Australia).' By James Allan Thomson, M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S. 



Lantern-slides, rock-specimens, and microscope-sections were 

 exhibited by M. Odling, M.A., B.Sc, F.G.S., in illustration of his 

 paper. 



May 28th, 1913. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Ernest Masson Anderson, H.M. Geological Survey, 43 Ladysmith 

 Eoad, Edinburgh ; John Edward Austin, F.B.A.S., West Court, 

 Detling, near Maidstone ; Harvey Collingridge, B.Sc, Assoc. M 

 Inst.C.E., Auburn, Denville, Havant ; Arthur Francis Hallimond, 

 B.A., Assistant Curator in the Museum of Practical Geology, 

 28 Jermyn Street, S.W. ; John Kanson, Assoc.M.Inst.M.E., 

 174 Willows Lane, Accrington ; Eichard Daniel Thomas-Jones, 

 5 Park View, Broughton, near Manchester ; William Henry Turton, 

 M.B., CM., Barlborough House, Heanor (Derbyshire); and George 

 H. Uttley, M.A., M.Sc, High School, Oamaru (New Zealand), 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President, in referring to the loss which the Society had 

 that day sustained by the decease of Joh.v Lubbock, 1st Baron 

 Avebxjry, recalled the fact that Lord Avebury had been a Fellow 

 of the Society for no less than fifty-eight years, that he had con- 

 tributed several valuable papers to the Society's Journal, and lhat 

 he was the recipient of the first Prestwich Medal. The President 

 added that he felt sure that the Fellows would associate themselves 

 with the resolution of condolence and sympathy which the Council 

 had addressed to Lady Avebury. 



