IV PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIE13T. [Feb. I9O9, 



December 2nd, 1-908. 



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

 in the Chair. 



James Mackintosh Bell, M.A., Ph.D., Director of the ?Vew Zealand 

 Geological Survey, Wellington (N.Z.) ; George AVashington Cobbe, 

 55 Kimberley Avenue, Seven Kings (Essex) ; Emiliano de la Cruz 

 y Diaz, M.Inst.M.E., Ribas (Prov. of Gerona), and 88 Cable Palmes, 

 Barcelona, Spain ; Leonard V. Dalton, B.Sc. Lond., 10 Dewhurst 

 Road, West Kensington, W. ; Herbert James Davies, Geologist on 

 the Geological Staff of the Burmah Oil Company Ltd., Tenang- 

 young (Upper Burma) ; Walter Hugh Davies, B.Sc, Science Master 

 at Lewis's Secondary School, Pengam, 46 ~M aes-y-graig Street, 

 Gilfach near Bargoed, via Cardiff; Charles Everitt, M.A., 67 Boston 

 Avenue, Southend-on-Sea (Esses) ; William Storrs Fox, M.A., 

 St. Anselm's, Bakewell (Derbyshire) ; Ernest Douglass Edward 

 Isaacson, Mining Engineer, Pahiatua (Xew Zealand) ; Samuel 

 Lister James, c/o Einlay, Fleming & Co., P.O. Box 181, Rangoon 

 (Burma); Paul Legrand, 5 Rue Defacqz, Brussels (Belgium); 

 Vernon Freeman Marsters, Cuerpo de Ingenieros de Minas del 

 Peru, Lima (Peru) ; Francis Edward Norris, Hill View, Ryde's 

 Hill, Guildford (Surrey); Albert Homer Purdue, M.A., F.G.S.A., 

 Professor of Geology in the State University of Arkansas, & State 

 Geologist of Arkansas, Fayetteville (Ark.), U.S.A. ; Ajit Mohan 

 Sen, B.Sc, Mining Engineer, c/o Messrs. Thomas Cook & Son, 

 Ludgate Circus, E.C. ; Ernst Sommerfeldt, Ph.D., Professor of 

 Mineralogy in the University of Tubingen (German}-) ; and Leslie 

 Alfred Edward Swinney, AssocR.S.M., Mining Engineer, Com- 

 paiiia Minera Poderosa de Collahuasi, Antofagasta (Chile), were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that Fellows were invited to send in 

 to the Secretary, so as to reach him not later than January 11th, 

 1909, the names of any Fellow or Fellows whom they might desire 

 to see placed on the Council. All names so sent in would be 

 carefully considered by the Council, in making their recommenda- 

 tions to the Fellows at the Annual General Meeting. 



The President also announced that a Special General Meeting 

 would be held on Wednesday, February 10th, 1909, in order to 

 consider the result of the vote of the Fellows on the question of 

 the Admission of Women into the Society. 



The following communication was read : — 



' The Geological Interpretation of the Earth-Movements associated 

 with the Californian Earthquake of April 18th, 1906.' By Richard 

 Dixon Oldham, F.G.S. 



