XCii PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Allg. I9OO, 



April 25th, 1900. 



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



Dr. Sven Leonhard Tornquist, of Lund (Sweden), was elected 

 a Foreign Member ; and Prof. Federico Sacco, of Turin, was 

 elected a Foreign Correspondent of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Peesident, having requested all present to rise from their 

 seats, read the following resolution which had been passed unani- 

 mously by the Council : ' That this Council desire to place on record 

 their deep sense of the loss which both science and literature have 

 sustained in the death of the Duke of Argyll, who was the oldest 

 surviving past-President of the Geological Society ; ' and stated that 

 on behalf of the Council he proposed to communicate a copy of the 

 resolution to the Duchess of Argyll, coupled with an expression of 

 respectful sympathy. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On an Anomodont Reptile, A ristodesmus Rutin teyeri (Wieders- 

 heim), from the Bunter Sandstone near Basel.' By Prof. H. G. 

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



2. ' On Longmyndian Inliers at Old Eadnor and Huntley (Glou- 

 cestershire).' By Charles Callaway, M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S. 



The following specimens, lantern-slides, and maps were exhi- 

 bited : — 



Specimens of Native Gold, apparently Pseudomorphous after Wood, 

 from near Port Darwin (Northern Territory of South Australia), 

 exhibited on behalf of 0. C. Witherden, Esq., by Prof. W. W. Watts, 

 M.A., Sec.G.S. 



Casts showing portions of the Skeleton of an Anomodont Reptile 

 from the Bunter Sandstone of Riehen, near Basel, exhibited by 

 Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.L.S., V.P.G.S., in illustration of his 

 paper. 



Rock-specimens, Microscope-sections, and Lantern-slides of Long- 

 myndian Rocks, exhibited by Dr. Charles Callaway, M.A., F.G.S., 

 in illustration of his paper. 



Geological Map of South Australia, 1899, on the scale of 16 miles 

 to the inch, drawn up and presented by H. Y. L.Brown, Esq., F.G.S. , 

 Government Geologist of South Australia. 



