Cil PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Aug. I9O3, 



May 13th, 1903. 

 Edwin - Tulley Newton, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



John Frederick Charles Abelspies, Esq., Assoc.Inst. M. & M., 

 Charlestown (Cornwall) ; and William Henry Sutcliffe, Esq., Shore, 

 Littleborough (Lancashire), were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' On some Disturbances in the Chalk near Royston (Hert- 

 fordshire).' By Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. ' On a Section at Cowley, near Cheltenham, and its Bearing* on 

 the Interpretation of the Bajocian Denudation.' By Linsdall 

 Richardson, Esq., F.G.S. 



3. ' Description of a Species of Hetcrastrcea from the Lower 

 Rhastic of Gloucestershire.' By Robert F. Tomes, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens of Weathered Chalk grooved by Rain and of Glaciated 

 Chalk from Boulder-Clay, exhibited by Horace B. Woodward, Esq., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens of ' Bored Bed ' of the Bajocian Denudation in the 

 Cheltenham District, exhibited by L. Richardson, Esq., F.G.S., in 

 illustration of his paper. 



Specimen of Heterastrcea from the Lower Rhaetic, near Tewkes- 

 bury, exhibited by R. F. Tomes, Esq., F.G.S., in illustration of his 

 paper. 



May 27th, 1903. 

 Edwin Tulley Newton, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



David C. Evans, Esq., St. Clears (Caermarthenshire), and William 

 Alvara Humphrey, Esq., B.A., Cape Town (South Africa), were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The Secretary read a letter from the President, expressing his 

 regret that he would be unable to preside at the remaining meetings 

 of the Session, as, in obedience to the orders of his doctor, he was 

 obliged to take a complete holiday from all work for the next few 

 weeks. 



It was announced that the Council had awarded the Proceeds of 

 the Daniel Pidgeon Fund for 1903 to Dr. Ernest Wellington Skeats, 

 F.G.S., of the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. 



