Vi PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. I903. 



Three new Maps presented by the Geological Commission of 

 Switzerland : — Moutier & Belleray (Bernese Jura) by L. Rollier, and 

 the Baden district (Aargau) by F. Miihlberg. 



January 7th, 1903. 



Prof. Chaeles Lapworth, LL.D,, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Herbert L. Bowman, Esq., M.A., Demonstrator in Mineralogy in 

 the University of Oxford, 13 Sheffield Gardens, London, W. ; 

 Arthur Hiorns, Jun., Esq., Carleon, Erdington ; and Edward 

 Thomas Temby, Esq., Erancistown & Bulawayo, Matabeleland 

 (South Africa), were elected Eellows of the Society. 



The following Fellows, nominated by the Council, were elected 

 Auditors of the Society's Accounts for the preceding year : Prof. 

 E. J. Garwood and F. W. Rudler, Esq. 



The list of Donations to the Library was read. 



Dr. John W. Evans showed a series of rocks and fossils collected 

 by him in the course of an expedition sent out by Sir Martin 

 Conway to the district of Caupolican, in Northern Bolivia. He 

 briefly described the geological structure of the country, from the 

 high tableland near Titicaca north-eastward across the Cordillera 

 Ileal, and other parallel mountain-chains, to the Amazonian plain. 



He also exhibited specimens of crystalline rocks from the 

 cataracts of the Bio Madeira, where the river makes its way 

 through the broad outcrop of ancient rocks that traverses the 

 centre of Brazil in a direction similar to that of the Andes in 

 the same latitudes. 



The following communication was read : — 



' On the Discovery of an Ossiferous Cavern of Pliocene Age at 

 Dove Holes, Buxton (Derbyshire).' By William Boyd Dawkins, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., Professor of Geology in Owens 

 College, Victoria University (Manchester). 



In addition to the specimens mentioned above, the following 

 were exhibited : — 



Bones and Teeth of Mastodon, Rhinoceros, Equus, & Machairodus 

 from the Pliocene Cave, Dove Holes (Derbyshire), exhibited by 

 Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., in 

 illustration of his paper. 



