Vol. 56.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. iii 



December 6th, 1899. 



W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Ernest Edward Leslie Dixon, Esq., B.Sc, 2 Thornford Road, 

 Lewieham, S.E. ; William Galloway, Esq., Professor of Mining in 

 the University College of South Wales & Monmouthshire, 19 New- 

 port Road, Cardiff; Ellis Philip Giiman, Esq., Assoc.R.S.M., 

 34 Ladbroke Square, London, W. ; Robert Lockhart Jack, Esq., 

 c/o The British Consul-General, Shanghai ; William John Lq 

 Lacheur, Esq,, B.A., The Wilderness, Tunbridge Wells ; George 

 Frederick Reader, Esq., Geological Survey of India, Calcutta ; 

 Philip Rufford, Esq., 19 Magdalen Road, St. Leonard's-on-Sea ; 

 Henr}' Vassal!, Esq., M.A., Repton, near Burton-on-Trent ; and 

 Ernest Seymour W T ood, Esq., 10 l Old Court House Street, Calcutta, 

 were elected Eellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Dr. Blanfoed said that he had been asked by Prof. Judd, who 

 was unable to attend, to say a few words about certain photographs 

 sent by Mr. E. H. L. Schwarz, and representing the Dwyka 

 boulder-bed and the rounded and grooved underlying surface, in 

 the neighbourhood of the Orange River near Hopetown and Prieska. 

 The importance of these photographs lay in the evidence which they 

 afforded on a disputed point. Dr. Sutherland and Mr. Griesbach 

 had called attention to the evidence of ice-action presented by the 

 Dwyka Conglomerate in Natal, and additional evidence had been 

 brought forward by several observers, especially by Mr. Dunn 

 from the Orange Eree State and Cape Colony, and recently by 

 Dr. Molengraaff from the Transvaal. Other observers, however, 

 and especially the late Prof. Green, had disputed the glacial origin 

 of the Dwyka Beds. The photographs now exhibited would, the 

 speaker thought, convince most geologists that the phenomena 

 presented were due to ice-action. The resemblance to similar 

 photographs shown to the Geological Society in 1896 by Prof. 

 T. W. Edgeworth David, and representing the beds corresponding to 

 the Dwyka Conglomerate in South Australia, was noteworthy. 

 Evidence of glacial action in Upper Palaeozoic times had gradually 

 accumulated from India, Australia, and South Africa, and there was 

 a probability that similar indications existed in South America. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'On the Geologv and Eossil Corals and Echinids of Somali- 

 land.' By Dr. J. W. Gregory, F.G.S. 



2. ' Note on Drift-Gravels at West Wickham (Kent).' By George 

 Clinch, Esq., F.G.S. 



3. l On the Occurrence in British Carboniferous Rocks of the 

 Devonian Genus Palceoneilo, with a Description of a New Species/ 

 By Dr. Wheelton Hind, B.S., F.R.C.S., F.G.S. 



