6 PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 894, 



The following Fellows, nominated by the Council, were elected 

 Auditors of the Society's Accounts for the preceding year : — 

 H. W. Monckton, Esq., F.L.S., and J. Hopkinson, Esq., F.L.S. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'On the Rheetic and some Liassic Ostracoda of Britain.' By 

 Prof. T. Eupert Jones, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' Leigh Creek Jurassic Coal-Heasures of South Australia : their 

 Origin, Composition, Physical and Chemical Characters ; and Recent 

 Subaerial Metamorphism of Local Superficial Drift.' By James 

 Parkinson, Esq., E.G.S., F.C.S. 



[Abstract.] 



This paper contains an account of the lignitic coal of Leigh 

 Creek and associated rocks. Analyses are given, as illustrating 

 comparisons between the Leigh Creek coal and Jurassic and other 

 coal-bearing rocks found elsewhere. The Author discusses the 

 origin of the Leigh Creek deposits, and describes certain peculiarities 

 noticeable in the superficial materials, which he discusses in another 

 paper. 



Discussion. 



The President remarked that the meeting was taken at a disad- 

 vantage, since it was probable that no one knew the district, and, 

 moreover, there was no one present to demonstrate the miscellaneous 

 collection on the table which was supposed to illustrate the paper. 

 It would seem that the Author takes it for granted that the Leigh 

 Creek beds are of Jurassic age, and no one present could deny it, 

 although he (the President) was not aware that the paper contained 

 any palacontological evidence to that effect. The Author appears to 

 be attacking somebody — probably a Government surveyor. On the 

 whole, one would say that he was more of a chemist than a geolo- 

 gist. In concluding his remarks, the President called attention to 

 an analysis of South Australian crocidolite, as compared with speci- 

 mens from Africa. 



Mr. A. P. Browne regretted that the Author had not given any 

 idea of the commercial value of the deposit, and pointed out that the 

 question was one of great importance in South Australia, as on it 

 depended, amongst other things, to a great extent the working of 

 many large mineral deposits in the vicinity. He had visited the 

 field and made analyses of the coal, which he found to be very 

 similar to that of the Tertiary deposits near Teplitz in Bohemia. 



