ii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. I9OO, 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President, having requested all present to rise from their 

 seats, expressed in feeling terms the sorrow felt by the Society at 

 the unexpectedly sudden loss of an esteemed Fellow and genial 

 friend, Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., V.P.G.S., to whose energy and 

 perseverance the Quarterly Journal owed so mnny papers, and from 

 whom many more valuable contributions might have been expected 

 in the years to come. The following resolution had been passed by 

 the Council that afternoon, and a copy thereof had been commu- 

 nicated to Mrs. Hicks with an expression of sincere sympathy : — 



1 That the Council desire to place on record their great grief 

 at the loss which Geological Science and the Geological Society 

 have sustained by the death of their Vice-President, Dr. Henry 

 Hicks, who so recently occupied the Presidential chair, and so 

 energetically attended to the welfare of the Society.' 



The President then said that the Society had to deplore another 

 severe loss in the person of their revered friend, Sir J. William 

 Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., who died at Montreal on Sunday, November 

 19th. The Council had passed the following resolution : — 



* That the Council have heard with deep regret of the 

 decease of the old and valued Fellow of the Geological Society, 

 Sir J. W. Dawson, who for ne rly fifty years has taken an 

 active part in advancing geological knowledge in general, and 

 more especially with regard to the great Dominion of Canada ; 

 and they desire to assure Lady Dawson, and the distinguished 

 Fellow of the Society, Dr. George Dawson, of the Couucil's 

 sincere sympathy in their loss/ 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On some Remarkable Calcisponges from the Eocene Strata of 

 Victoria (Australia).' By George Jennings Hinde, Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 F.G.S. 



2. ' The Silurian Sequence of Rhayader.' By Herbert Lapworth, 

 Esq., Stud.Inst.CE., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Eocene Calcisponges from Victoria (Australia), exhibited by 

 Dr. G. J. Hinde, F.R.S., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Rocks and Fossils from the Silurian of the Rhayader District 

 (Central Wales), exhibited by H. Lapworth, Esq., Stud.Inst.CE., 

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



An Album of Geological Photographs, exhibited bv H. W. 

 Monckton, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



