﻿PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON 



SESSION 1904-1905. 



November 9th, 1904. 

 J. E. Make, Sc.D., F.B.S., President, in the Chair. 



Edward Battersby Bailey, B.A., of H.M. Geological Survey, 

 49 Alleyn Park, Dulwich, S.E. ; Davidge Page, Assoc.M.Tnst.M.E., 

 F.C.S., F.B.G.S., Hotel Bussell, Bussell Square, W.C. ; Edward 

 Heton Boberton, B.A.Oxon., Lecturer in Mining in the University 

 of Birmingham ; and Arthur Young, M.A., B.Sc, Professor of 

 Geology & Mineralogy in the South African College, Cape Town, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Mr. E. T. Newton, in exhibiting, by permission of the Director 

 of H.M. Geological Survey, a specimen of Fayolia near to 

 Fayolia grandis, found by Dr. L. Moysey, of Nottingham, in the 

 Coal-Measures of Ilkeston (Derbyshire), pointed out that Fayolia 

 was first described by Profs. Benault & Zeiller in 1884, in their 

 monograph on the ' Houiller de Commentry.' In 1894 Mr. Seward 

 described the first British specimen, from Northumberland, in the 

 Leeds ' Naturalist,' but thought that it was not a plant. There 

 was some resemblance to certain spiral egg-cases of Elasmobranchs ; 

 but Dr. Giinther was unwilling to accept the Northumberland 

 fossil as the egg-case of a fish. Mr. Kidston had not yet seen 

 the specimen now exhibited ; but, from a sketch, he recognized 

 its relation to Fayolia. At present, there was still uncexfc&Hifcy- as 

 to the exact nature of this fossil. v^^^lnslituf/o 



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