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mass of rounded pebbles and boulders exposed was very considerable, and a 

 much greater quantity remains untouched between the section cut into and 

 the face of the cliff as one goes south-eastwards, a distance of some 35 feet. 

 The beach itself, taken in the gully, is 127 feet 9 inches above mean sea-level. 

 No shells were found, although carefully looked for, and it is not likely that 

 they could have survived the lengthy grinding action of the sea, when this 

 large mass of granite -fragments was rolled up and down in the gully, and to 

 such an extent as to wear the walls to a polished surface. There are some 

 remains of a sea-beach on the northern coast of Jersey, at a level of 155 feet 

 above the sea ; but, as regards mass and complete evidence of that mass lying 

 in a finely polished rock-gully, the South Hill high-level sea-beach takes the 

 first place in point of interest among the sea-beaches that have so far been 

 noted and examined in Jersey.' 



In the absence of the Author, the following paper was read by 

 Mr. E. D. Oldham, F.R.S., V.P.G.S. : — 



' A Rift- Valley in Western Persia.' By Prof. S. James Shand, 

 D.Sc, F.G-.S.i 



A cast of an Italian Renaissance Medal of Leonello Pio, Count 

 of Carpi, dating from about a.d. 1500, and bearing on its reverse 

 a design representing a volcano in eruption (Vesuvius), was 

 exhibited by Mr, C. Davies Sherborn, F.Gr.S. 3 



January 7th, 1920. 



Mr. Gr. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



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

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

 year: — S. Hazzledine Warren and Bernard Smith, M.A. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On Syringothyris Winchell, and certain Carboniferous 

 Brachiopoda referred to Spinferina D'Orbigny. By Frederick 

 John North, B.Sc, F.O.S. 



2. ' Jurassic Chronology : I — Lias. Supplement 1, West 

 England Strata.' By S. S. Buckman, F.Gr.S. (Read, in the 

 absence of the Author, by Dr. W. D. Lang, M.A., F.G.S.) 



Specimens of fossil brachiopoda and lantern-slides were exhibited 

 by Mr. F. J. North, in illustration of his paper. 



1 Published in Q. J. G. S. vol. lxxv (1919-20) pp. 245-50. 



2 See Geol. Mag. 1919, p. 195. 



