XCli PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 895, 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that the Council had temporarily 

 appointed Thomas Mercer and his wife to the respective posts of 

 House Porter and Upper Housemaid. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' Physical Features and Geologv of Mauritius.' By Major H. 

 de Haga Haig, R.E., F.G.S. 



2. ' On a Comparison of the Permian Freshwater Lamellibrau- 

 chiata from Russia with those from the Karoo Formation of Africa.' 

 By Dr. Wladimir Amalitsky, Professor of Geology in Warsaw 

 University. (Communicated by Dr. Henry Woodward, F.E.S., 

 Pres. Geol. Soc.) 



3. ' Ice-plough Furrows of a Glacial Period.' By W. S. Gresley, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Sketches of the Scenery and Flora of Mauritius, exhibited by 

 Major H. de Haga Haig, in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens from the Society's collection found in the Karoo Beds 

 of South Africa, shown in illustration of Prof. Amalitsky's paper. 



Copies of newly issued Geological Survey Maps, England, Sheets 

 102 N.W., S.W., S.E., Solid and Drift, presented by the Director- 

 General of that Survey. 



April 24th, 1895. 



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



Cyril Edward Parsons, Esq., Birdsall Grange, York ; and William 

 Percy Workman, Esq., M.A., B.Sc, Burton House, Lansdowne, 

 Bath, were elected Fellows ; and Magister Friedrich Schmidt, St. 

 Petersburg, was elected a Foreign Member of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On the Shingle Beds of Eastern East Anglia.' By Sir Henry 

 H. Howorth, K.C.I.E., M.P., F.B.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' Supplementary Notes on the Systematic Position of the 

 Trilobites.' By H. M. Bernard, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. (Communicated 

 by Dr. Henry Woodward, F.E.S., P.G.S.) 



3. ' An Experiment to illustrate the Mode of Flow of a Viscous 

 Fluid.' By Prof. W. J. Sollas, D.Sc, LL.D., M.A., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



