vi PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. 1909, 



Four water-co]our drawings of the Hawaiian Volcanoes, painted 

 and presented by Arthur Brown, Esq., F.G.S. 



Folios 151-159 of the United States Geologic Atlas, 1907-1908, 

 presented by the Director of the United States Geological Survey- 



January 13th, 1909. 



Prof. W. J. Sollas, LL.D., Sc.D., F.B.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Thomas Richard Henry Garrett, M.A., 16 Queensland Eoad, 

 Boscombe, and Albert Tulip, B.Sc, Civil Engineer, Choppington, 

 Morpeth, were elected Fellows ; and Dr. Bundjiro Koto, of Tokyo, 

 and Prof. Johan H. L. Yogt, of Christiania, were elected Foreign 

 Members of the Society. 



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

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

 year : Dr. Aubrey Strahan, F.ll.S., and James Vincent Elsden, 

 B.Sc. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that the Council, at its meeting that 

 afternoon, had passed the following resolution : — 



' The Council of the Geological Society desires to express to the relatives 

 of Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., its profound sorrow in the death of one who had 

 been a Fellow for nearly half a century, had frequently served on the Council 

 of the Society, and, for so many years, continued to enrich the literature of 

 Geology and Palaeontology by numerous original researches in these Sciences.' 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'On Labradorite-Norite with Porphyritic Labradorite.' By 

 Prof. Johan H. L. Vogt, F.M.G.S, 



2. ' On the Genus Loaconema, with Descriptions of JN"ew Proterozoic 

 Species.' By Mrs. Jane Longstaff (nee Donald), F.L.S. (Com- 

 municated by Dr. G. B. Longstaff, M.A., F.G.S.) 



The following specimens and lantern-slides were exhibited : — 



Fossil gasteropods from various collections, exhibited in illus- 

 tration of Mrs. Longstaff's paper. 



Lantern-slides, prepared by Mr. Zealley and exhibited by 

 Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S., Sec.G.S., in illustration of Prof. Johan 

 H. L. Vogt's paper. 



