XC PKOCEEDISTGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 190O. 



Esq., Government Works Department, Sydney (New South 

 Wales) ; William Frederick Holmes, Esq., B.A., Imperial Institute, 

 South Kensington, S.W. ; Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue, Esq., 35 

 Princess Street, Wigan ; and Walter G. Woolnough, Esq., B.Sc., 

 Assistant Lecturer in Mineralogy and Demonstrator in Geology, 

 University of Sydney (New South Wales), were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. < Notes on the Geology of Gilgit.' By Lieut.-Gen. C. A. 

 McMahon, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' The Rocks of the South-eastern Coast of Jersey.' By John 

 Parkinson, Esq., F.G.S. 



3. ' The Rocks of La Saline (Northern Jersey)/ By John 

 Parkinson, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Rock-specimens from Gilgit, Microscope-sections, and Lantern- 

 photographs, exhibited by Lieut.-Gen. C. A. McMahon, F.R.S., 

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



Rock-specimens from Jersey and Microscope-sections, exhibited 

 by John Parkinson, Esq., F.G.S., in illustration of his two papers. 



March 21st, 1900. 

 H. W. Monckton, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Stanley Walkington Carpenter, Esq., Trevathan, Beckenham 

 (Kent); Thomas John Jehu, Esq., B.A., M.B., B.Sc, St. John's 

 College, Cambridge ; and the Right Rev. John Mitchinson, D.C.L., 

 D.D., Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'On a Bird from the Stonesfield Slate.' By Prof. H. G. 

 Seeley, F.R.S., F.L.S., V.P.G.S. 



2. 'The Lower Ludlow Formation and its Graptolite-Fauna.' 

 By Miss E. M. R. Wood. (Communicated by Prof. C. Lapworth, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.) 



