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



New Edition of the 500 1 000 Map of the Geological Survey of 

 Portugal, by J. F. N. Delgado and P. Choifat, presented by the 

 Commissao dos Servicos geologicos de Portugal. 



Globe orogenique de la Terre, d'apres F. Sacco, scale 100 000 u0t ; » 

 illustrating his memoir on the Orogeny of the Earth, presented by 

 the Author. 



June 20th, 1900. 



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



David Watkin Jones, Esq., 5 Llantwit Street, Cardiff; Paul 

 Mellors, Esq., Minas San Crispin, La Majada, Huelva (Spain), and 

 Locksley House, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham ; Albert Henry Pawson, 

 Esq., Earnley, Leeds ; Edward Potter, Esq., J.P., Murray Street, 

 Gawler (South Australia) ; and Thomas Sheppard, Esq., Eastbourne 

 Villas, 432 Holderness Road, Hull, were elected Fellows ; Prof. 

 Paul Groth, of Munich, was elected a Foreign Member ; and Prof. 

 Arturo Issel, of Genoa, a Foreign Correspondent of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The names of certain Fellows were read out for the second time, 

 in conformity with the Bye-Laws, Sect. VI, Art. 5, in consequence 

 of the Non-payment of Arrears of Contributions. 



The President announced that the Foreign Secretary had 

 received the following letter from Prof. A. Gaudry, F.M.G.S., 

 President of the Organizing Committee of the Vlllth International 

 Geological Congress : — 



' My Dear Friend, 



' We have just published the Guide-book to the excursions in France of 

 the International Geological Congress. It occupies over 1000 pages, and is full of 

 beautiful illustrations and of geological sections and maps. The excursions will 

 extend over the whole of France, from the North as far as the Central Plateau, 

 the Alps, and the Pyrenees. As you are the Foreign Secretary of the Geological 

 Society of London, equally honoured and loved in England and in France, I think 

 that no one is in a better position than you to beg of the Fellows of the Geological 

 Society of London to come in large numbers to Paris. All our geologists will 

 be honoured in seeing them, and will be happy to receive their opinions. To have 

 any great authority, it is necessary that an International Geological Congress should 

 have your country — where Geology has been so magnificently studied — largely repre- 

 sented. You can tell our brethren of the Geological Society of London that the 

 President of the Organizing Committee of the Congress of 1900 is the oldest of 

 the Foreign Members inscribed upon their list, that he is a former recipient of the 

 Wollaston Medal, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, and that 

 among his scientific acquaintance he has not a better friend than you. This will be 

 as much as to tell them that I am attached to them by the bonds of deep gratitude, 

 and that it will be a happiness for me to welcome them in our ancient city of 

 Paris. I reckon upon you. 



' Yours most sincerely, 



'Albert Gaudry.' 



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