Vol. 67.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. XCix 



May 10th, 1911. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Herbert Stanley Bion, B.Sc., Assistant Superintendent, Geo- 

 logical Survey of India, Calcutta : J. S. Freeman, Buckfastleigh, 

 Church End, Pinchley, N. ; Harman Milton, 23 Sussex Place, 

 Eegent's Park, N.W. ; Rowland Edgar Nicholas, E.L.S., Bitterne 

 Park (Hampshire) ; Harold Hyde Ridsdale, Kelfield Lodge, Street]}*, 

 near Birmingham; and Edwin Taylor, B.Sc, Lecturer in Physical 

 Science in the Consett Technical Institute, Lennel House, Blackhill, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Lower Carboniferous Succession in the North- West of 

 England.' By Prof. Edmund Johnston Garwood, M.A., Sec.G.S. 



2. - The Faunal and Lithological Sequence in the Carboniferous 

 Limestone (Avonian) of Burrington Combe, Somerset.' By Prof. 

 Sidney Hugh Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S., and Arthur Vaughan, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.G.S. 



Mr. S. Hazzledine Warren exhibited a piece of worked wood, 

 possibly the point of a palaeolithic spear. It measured 15| inches 

 in length and 1| inches in thickness ; one end had been carefully 

 fashioned to an acute point, the other end was broken. Mr. Warren 

 said that he had quite recently dug it out of an undisturbed part 

 of the freshwater deposit of Clacton-on-Sea. This deposit yields 

 remains of Ehjohas antiquus, Rhinoceros, and other Pleistocene 

 mammalia in abundance, as also palaeolithic flint-implements, some 

 of which were now exhibited. The contemporaneity of the pointed 

 shaft — with the Pleistocene deposit in which it was found — was 

 confirmed by the fact that it agreed in condition with the wood 

 that is extremely plentiful in the same bed. It also had calcareous 

 encrustations upon its surface, such as were seen on other remains 

 from this deposit. 



In addition to the specimen above described, the following 

 exhibits were shown : — 



Fossils, rock-specimens, microscope-sections, and lantern-slides, 

 exhibited by Prof. E. J. Garwood, M.A., Sec.G.S., in illustration of 

 his paper. 



Fossils, rock-specimens, microscope-sections, and lantern-slides, 

 exhibited by Prof. S. H. Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S., and Dr. A. 

 Yaughan, M.A., F.G.S., in illustration of their paper. 



