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The following specimens and maps were exhibited : — 



Specimens of Shingle, etc., exhibited by Sir Henry H. Howorth, 

 K.C.I.E., M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Rock-specimens from the ballast of a Swedish vessel wrecked off 

 Hunstanton two years ago, exhibited by Sir Henry H. Howorth, 

 K.C.I.E., M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Tertiary fossils from Fyans Ford, etc., near Geelong, Victoria, 

 exhibited by T. W. Reader, Esq., F.G.S. 



Scratched Blocks from the Findelen Glacier, Zermatt, exhibited 

 by W. W. Watts, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



Copies of newly-issued Geological Survey Maps, England, Sheet 

 343, Solid and Drift, presented by the Director-General of H.M. 

 Geological Survey. 



May 8th, 1895. 



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



Charles Maidment, Esq., P.O. Box 48, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Secretary announced that a portrait of the late Leonard 

 Horner, F.R.S., twice President of the Geological Society, was 

 exhibited on the screen, and presented by Mrs. Katherine Lyall. 



Prof. Judd drew attention to an interesting series of photographs 

 sent for exhibition to the Geological Society by Prof. Liversidge, 

 F.R.S., of Sydney, N.S.W. Prof. Liversidge has found that sections 

 of gold nuggets, when etched with chlorine- water, exhibit lines like 

 the Widmanstetten figures of meteorites, showing that the gold has 

 a crystalline structure, octahedral and cubic forms being displayed. 

 The very beautiful photographs on the table admirably illustrated 

 this remarkable structure. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'The Stirling Dolerite.' By Horace W. Monckton, Esq., 

 F.L.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' Notes on some Railway-cuttings near Keswick.' By J. 



Postlethwaite, Esq., F.G.S. 



3. ' The Shelly Clays and Gravels of Aberdeenshire considered in 

 Relation to the Question of Submergence.' By Dugald Bell, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



In addition to the portrait and photographs mentioned above, 

 the following specimens were exhibited : — 



Photographs, rock-specimens, and microscope-sections, exhibited 

 by Horace W. Monckton, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., in illustration of his 

 paper. 



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