Vol. 51.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. lxxxix 



February 20th, 1895. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Eev. George Charles Hungerford Pollen, S.J., Stonyhnrst 

 College, Blackburn, Lancashire ; Charles Rollin, Esq., Jesmond, 

 Newcastle- on-Ty no ; and William Pinckard Delane Stebbing, Esq., 

 169 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, W., were elected Eellows of 

 the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced to the Eellows the grievous loss which 

 the Society had suffered in the decease of its Foreign Secretary, 

 Mr. J. W. Hulke, E.E.S., President of the Royal College of Surgeons. 

 He dwelt on the great value of Mr. Hulke's work in Vertebrate 

 Paleontology, on his long services as a Member of Council and an 

 Officer of the Society, and on his amiable personal qualities, which 

 had endeared him to a wide circle of friends. He read the following 

 resolution which the Council had that afternoon unanimously voted, 

 and communicated to Mrs. Hulke with the expression of their heart- 

 felt sympathy : " That this Council most deeply deplore the sad loss 

 that the Society and all those interested in palaeontology have sus- 

 tained by the untimely decease of our Foreign Secretary, Mr. J. W. 

 Hulke, F.R.S., whose investigations in various branches of science 

 have led to such valuable results." 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' Contributions to the Palaeontology and Physical Geology of 

 the West Indies.' By J. W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



2. ' The Whitehaven Sandstone Series.' By J. D. Kendall, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



3. ' Notes on the Genus Murchisonia and its Allies, with a 

 Revision of the British Carboniferous Species, and Descriptions of 

 some New Forms.' By Miss J. Donald. (Communicated by 

 J. G. Goodchild, Esq., F.G.S.) 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens of Corals from San Domingo, exhibited from the 

 Society's Museum in illustration of the paper by Dr. J. W. Gregory, 

 F.G.S. ; also specimens and microscope-sections exhibited by 

 himself for the same purpose. 



Tertiary Mollusca from the Paris and Hampshire Basins, ex- 

 hibited by G. F. Harris, Esq., F.G.S. 



