8 PBOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 894, 



January 24th, 1894. 



W. H. Hudleston, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Herbert Kynaston, Esq., B.A., The College, Durham ; James 

 Francis Markes, Esq., 31 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria; 

 Henry Preston, Esq., Hawthornden Yilla, Grantham; and George 

 Thurland Prior, Esq., M.A., 50 Munster Road, Fulham, S.W., were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'The Ossiferous Fissures in the Valley of the Shode, near 

 Ightham, Kent.' By W. J. Lewis Abbott, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. ' The Vertebrate Fauna collected by Mr. Lewis Abbott from 

 the Fissure near Ightham, Kent.' By E. T. Newton, Esq., F.R.S., 

 F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens of tbe Vertebrate Fauna, etc., from the Fissure near 

 Ightham, Kent, exhibited by Messrs. W. J. Lewis Abbott, F.G.S., 

 and E. T. Newton, F.R.S., F.G.S., in illustration of their papers. 



February 7th, 1894. 



W. H. Hudleston, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Alfred Alcock, M.B., Surgeon-Captain I.M.S., Superintendent of 

 the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and Professor of Zoology in the Uni- 

 versity of Calcutta, Calcutta, India ; William Wickham King, Esq., 

 Pedmore House, near Stourbridge ; and Samuel Sydney Piatt, Esq., 

 Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., 14 King Street South, Rochdale, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Mr.C. J. Alfoed, F.G.S., in explanation of specimens of auriferous 

 rocks from Mashonaland exhibited by him, stated that several of 

 them were vein-quartz occurring as segregations in the slates, 

 generally forming veins between the cleavage-planes. Another 

 specimen was a mass of chromate of lead, with pyromorphite and 

 other lead minerals, occurring in masses in decomposed and dislo- 

 cated talcose slate in the Penhalonga Mine near Umtali, and probably 

 resulting from the alteration of masses of galena by weathering, 



