Hi. ABSTRACT OP PROCEEDINGS. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



(IN ABSTRACT.) 



A meeting was held on Wednesday, 18th August, 1909, to 

 resuscitate the Geological Section of the Royal Society, 

 which had been defunct since the year 1891. Mr. R. H. 

 Cambage, Dr. W. G. Woolnough, Dr. H. I. Jensen, Dr. C. 

 Anderson, Messrs. A. J. Walkom, L. Cotton, W. S. Dun, 

 and O. A. Sussmilch, were present. 



Mr. J. E. Carne, f.g.s., (Assistant Government Geologist) 

 was elected President, and Mr. 0. A. Sussmilch, f.g.s., 

 was elected Secretary. 



It was decided to meet on the second Wednesday in each 

 month. A general discussion as to the scope of the Section 

 was held, and it was decided that all original geological 

 papers presented to the Society by members should be read 

 at general meetings of the Society, but discussed at the 

 meetings of the Section. It was further arranged that 

 geological papers of special importance from other parts of 

 Australia and abroad, were to be abstracted by members 

 as follows, and the abstracts presented at the monthly 

 meetings of the Section, viz.: — Dr. Anderson (Crystallo- 

 graphy) ; E. 0. Andrews (Physiography); W. N. Benson 

 (Rock-forming Minerals); L. Cotton (Economic Geology); 

 W. S. Dun (Palaeontology); Dr. H. I. Jensen (Descriptive 

 Petrology); Rev. E. F. Pigot (Seismology); C. A. Sussmilch 

 (Stratigraphical Geology); Dr. W. G. Woolnough (Optical 

 and Physical Mineralogy). 



General Monthly Meeting, 15th September, 1909. 

 Mr. R. H. Cambage in the Chair. 

 Twelve members and two visitors were present. 



