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The following specimens and maps were exhibited : — 



Cast of a Fossil Eird-bone, exhibited by Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.E.S., 

 F.L.S., V.P.G.S., in illustration of bis paper. 



Specimens of Lower Ludlow Graptolites and Lantern-slides, 

 exhibited by Prof. C. Lapworth, LL.D., F.E.S., F.G.S., in illustra- 

 tion of the paper by Miss Ethel M. E. Wood. 



Geological Survey of England & Wales : 1-inch Geological Map, 

 n. s., no. 231, Merthyr Tydfil (Solid & Drift) by A. Strahan, W. 

 Gibson, & T. C. Cantrill, 1900 ; also no. 325, Exeter (Drift) by 

 W. A. E. TTssher, 1899, presented by the Director-General of H.M. 

 Geological Survey. 



April 4th, 1900. 



J. J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Charles George Warnford Lock, Esq., 4 Throgmorton Avenue, 

 E.C. ; William Eofe, Esq., 8 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W. 

 Alfred Godden Smith, Esq., Naishcombe House, Wick, near Bristol 

 and Theodore Stacey Wilson, M.D., B.Sc, M.E.C.P., Wyddrington, 

 Edgbaston, Birmingham, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that Mr. F. W. Harmer had pre- 

 sented to the Society an enlarged photograph, suitably framed, of 

 Messrs. Searles Wood, father and son ; and thanked the donor for 

 this opportune addition to the Society's collection of portraits of 

 eminent geologists. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' Additional Notes on some Eruptive Eocks from New Zealand.' 

 By Frank Eutley, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. ' On the Discovery and Occurrence of Minerals containing 

 Eare Elements.' By Baron A. E. Nordenskiold, F.M.G.S. 



The following specimens and lantern- slides were exhibited : — 



Microscope-sections and hand- specimens of Eruptive Eocks from 

 New Zealand, exhibited by Frank Eutley, Esq., F.G.S., in illustra- 

 tion of his paper. 



Lantern-slides photographed and exhibited by Frederick Chapman, 

 Esq., A.L.S., F.E.M.S., in illustration of the same paper. 



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