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The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Marine Beds in the Coal-Measures of North Stafford- 

 shire.' Bv John T. Stobbs, Esq., F.G.S. With Notes on their 

 Paleontology by Wheelton Hind, M.D., B.S., F.R.C.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' The Geology of Cyprus.' By Charles Vincent Bellamy, 

 M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S. With Contributions by Alfred John Jukes- 

 Browne, B.A., F.G.S. 1 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens from the Marine Beds in the Coal-Measures of North 

 Staffordshire, exhibited by Wheelton Hind, M.D., F.G.S., J. T. 

 Stobbs, F.G.S., and John Ward, F.G.S., in illustration of the paper 

 on that subject. 



Specimens of Archceocidaris allied to A. vetusta, Phillips, and 

 A. benburbensis, Portlock, from the grey shale underlying the 

 Gin-Mine Coal, Nettlebank Colliery, Small fchorne (Staffordshire), 

 exhibited by Dr. F. A. Bather, M.A., F.G.S. 



Microscope-sections of rocks from Cyprus, exhibited in illustra- 

 tion of the paper by C. V. Bellamy, M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S., and 

 A. J. Jukes-Browne, B.A., F.G.S. 



Clypeaster alius var. portentosus (Helvetian) from Cyprus, and 

 microscope-sections of the matrix. Collected by Miss D. M. A. 

 Bate, and exhibited by Dr. F. A. Bather, M.A., F.G.S. 



January 18th, 1905. 



J. E. Maer, Sc.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Mr. W. G. Fearn sides, in exhibiting a series of Llandovery- 

 Tarannon graptolites from Llanystumdwy, near Criccieth (Caer- 

 narvonshire), remarked that the graptolites were beautifully preserved 

 in pyrites, and were in full relief. They were from shales of the 

 Birkhill or Stockdale-Shale type, and the four zones of Monograptus 

 eoeiguus, M. turriculatus, M.Jlmbriatus, and JDimorjohograptus were 

 indicated. This was the first record of Llandovery-Tarannon rocks 

 in the Lleyn Peninsula, since the time of Salter's Catalogue, which 

 recorded Llandovery fossils of May-Hill type from The Hollies 

 Farm, Pwllheli. 



Mr. G. F. Herbert Smith, in exhibiting a h a n d-r efractometer, 

 remarked that, in that instrument, he had endeavoured to produce a 

 refractometer which should be portable, and at the same time 

 should furnish results of sufficient accuracy for the practical 

 requirements of the mineralogist and the petrologist. The 



1 Withdrawn by permission of the Council. 



