part 1] PKOCEEDLNGS Or THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. lxxxix 



In convejdng to the Lecturer the thanks of the Meeting for his 

 illuminating discourse, the Pbesident said that, although these 

 lectures were not open for discussion as in the case of an ordinary 

 paper, he might he permitted to express a personal feeling of 

 gratification that his own pioneer efforts in the same line had been 

 confirmed by the Lecturer's fuller discussion, not merely in kind, 

 but to an unexpected degree as concerned numerical estimates. 

 The most important result of the investigations which had been 

 described appeared to be the discovery of the remarkable reversal 

 in curvature of the wave-paths at a depth of about 1000 miles. 

 It might be a mere coincidence that this was also the depth of 

 separation, according to one well-known hypothesis, between the 

 metallic nucleus and the stony shell of the Earth, but the 

 coincidence was at least suggestive, and the discovery was entirely 

 due to the Lecturer, having been unknown before it was brought 

 out by the ingenious and exact methods of discussion which had 

 been elaborated by him. 



A geological hammer that had belonged to the late Sir Charles 

 Lyell, and had been presented to the Society by Capt. Francis H. 

 Lyell (his nephew), was exhibited. 



A plaster bust of the late Dr. Hugh Falconer (Foreign Secretary 

 1863-64), presented, on behalf of Miss Milne, by Mr. W. J. Lewis 

 Abbott, F.Gr.S., was also exhibited. 



June 23rd, 1920. 



Mr. R. D. Oldham, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Herbert Carlyle Billington, 5 Wellington Road, Higher Crump- 

 sail, Manchester; William Alden Brown, Riverside, Marden (Kent) ; 

 James Norman Carruthers, Grlencoe, Leyton Avenue, Mansfield ; 

 Norman Cave-Brown- Cave, Stanmore House, Moffat (Dumfries- 

 shire) ; Samuel Ernest Loxton, F.RA.S., Icknield, Little Aston, 

 near Sutton Coldfield (Staffordshire); Mungo Park, A.R.S.M., 

 Assoc. Inst.M.M., Vimy Estate, Kundang, Selangor (Federated 

 Malay States) ; Frank Petch, B.Sc , 6 Trentham Street, Dewsbury 

 Road, Leeds ; Henry Pooley, B.Sc, Assoc. M.Inst.C.E., 10 Cray's 

 Inn Square, Cray's Inn, W.C.I; Percival Ross, 41 Mannville 

 Terrace, Morley Street, Bradford ; and Ethel Mary Reader Shake- 

 spear, D.B.E., D.Sc, 21 Woodland Road, Northfield, Birmingham, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Names of certain Fellows of the Society were read out for 

 the first time, in conformity with the Bye Laws, Sect. VI. Art. 5, 



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