Yol. 59.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. vii 



January 21st, 1903. 



Prof. Charles Lapworth, LL.D., F.B.S., President, in the Chair. - 



Frederick Lionel Daniels, Esq., Fern Cottage, Lighthill, Stroud 

 (Gloucestershire) ; George Cecil Gough, Esq., Lecturer in Geology 

 at Queen's College, Belfast, 109 Wellesley Avenue, Belfast ; and 

 Bertram Montgomery Oxley-Oxland, Esq., Delamore Hall, Hillcrest, 

 Natal (South Africa), were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read: — 



1. ' The Figure of the Earth." By William Johnson Sollas, M.A., 

 D.Sc, LL.D., F.K.S., F.G.S., Professor of Geology in the University 

 of Oxford. 



2. ' The Sedimentary Deposits of Southern Rhodesia.' By Arthur 

 John Charles Molyneux,- Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens, etc. were exhibited : — 



A Globe and Lantern-Slides, exhibited by Prof. W. J. Sollas, M. A., 

 D.Sc, LL.D., F.E.S., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens with fossil remains of Fishes, Plants, and Mollusca, 

 from the coal-bearing beds (Permo-Carboniferous) of Southern 

 Ehodesia, exhibited by A. J. C. Molyneux, Esq., F.G.S., in 

 illustration of his paper. 



Geological Map of Spain, by Amalio Maestre, 2 ou * 0Q0 , Madrid, 

 1863, presented by James IN". Shoolbred, Esq., C.E. 



February 4th, 1903. 



Prof. Charles Lapworth, LL.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



"Walter Baldwin, Esq., 218 Yorkshire Street, Eochdale ; and 

 Thomas Nicholas Leslie, Esq., Yereeniging (Transvaal Colony), 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



Mr. H. E. H. S medley exhibited aud commented on wax-models, 

 prepared by himself, of the following Fossil Seeds : — 



(1) Steplianospermum akenioides, a Palaeozoic seed from the 

 Permo-Carboniferous formation of St. Etienne. Models of this 

 vol. lix. b 



