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Vol. 50.] DllOCEEDIXGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 14I 



February 21st, 1894. 



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



Thomas Hargreaves, Esq., Secretary of the Institute of Mines and 

 Forests of British Guiana, Georgetown, British Guiana ; William 

 Maynard Hutchings, Esq., 99 Osborne Boad, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; 

 Alfred Edouard Lardeur, Esq., 64 Stamford Street, Blackfriars, 

 S.E. ; John Nevin, Esq., Littlemoor, Mirfield, Yorkshire ; and the 

 Rev. James Thomas Pinfold, Mornington, Dunedin, New Zealand, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that the Sixth Session of the In- 

 ternational Geological Congress will be held at Ziirich from 

 August 29th to September 2nd, 1894. The meetings are to be 

 divided into three sections : — 



1st. General Geology, etc. 



2nd. Stratigraphy and Palaeontology. 



3rd. Mineralogy and Petrography. 



Geologists having papers to present at the Meetings are requested 

 to notify the same to the Committee, and to send a short abstract 

 of the subject with which they propose to deal. The Circular is 

 suspended on the Notice-Board at the Apartments of the Society 

 for the convenience of those Fellows who may desire further 

 information. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On the Belations of the Basic and Acid Bocks of the Tertiary 

 Volcanic Series of the Inner Hebrides.' By Sir Archibald Geikie, 

 D.Sc., LL.D., F.B.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' Note on the Genus Naiadites, as occurring in the Coal 

 Formation of Nova Scotia.' By Sir J. William Dawson, C.M.G., 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. With an Appendix by Dr. Wheelton Hind, 

 B.S., F.B.C.S., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited :-— 



Photographs and rock-specimens from near the head of Glen 

 Sligachan, Skye, exhibited by Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc, LL.D., 

 F.B.S., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens exhibited by Sir J. William Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., 



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