11 PEOCEEDIXGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. I9IT, 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Rhastic and Contiguous Deposits of West, Mid, and Part 

 of East Somerset.' By Linsdall Richardson, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. 



2. 'Jurassic Plants from the Marske Quarry.' By the Rev. 

 George John Lane, F.G.S. 



The following specimens, photographs, and maps were ex- 

 hibited : — 



Specimens of Rhastic deposits and fossils from Somerset, also 

 lantern-slides, exhibited by L. Richardson, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., F.G.S. , 

 in illustration of his paper. 



A series of photographs of Jurassic plants from the Marske 

 Quarry, exhibited by the Rev. G. J. Lane, F.G.S., in illustration of 

 his paper. 



Photographs demonstrating the recession of the Grand Pacific 

 and Muir Glaciers between the w years 1894 and 1907, exhibited by 

 M. P. Cotsworth, F.G.S. 



The new Geological Survey maps of Egypt, that on the scale 

 of 1 : 1,000,000 being in six sheets, and that on the scale of 

 1 : 2,000,000 in one sheet ; issued by the Survey Department 

 of Egypt, 1910, and presented by the Director of that Department. 



Fourteen sheets of the 6-inch Geological Survey Map of Scot- 

 land, issued by that Survey, and presented by the Director. 



November 23rd, 1910. 



Prof. W. W. Watts, Sc.D., M.Sc, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Charles Moncrieff Piachaud Wright, c/o Messrs. Grindlay & Co., 

 55 Parliament Street, S.W., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read :-— 



1. * The Effects of Secular Oscillation in Egypt during the 

 Eocene and Cretaceous Periods.' By William Fraser Hume, 

 D.Sc, A.R.C.S., F.G.S., Director of the Geological Survey of 

 Egypt. 



2. ' The Origin of the British Trias. 5 ! Bv A. R. Horwood. 

 (Communicated by Prof. T. G. Bonney, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.) 



1 Withdrawn by permission of the Council, 



