Vol. 58.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Ixxxiil 
| May Mth, 1902. 
Prof. Cuartes LapwortH, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
George Steuart Corstorphine, B.Sc., Ph.D., Director of the 
Geological Survey of Cape Colony, South African Museum, Cape 
Town; Alfred William Oke, Esq., B.A., LL.M., 16 Bedford Row, 
W.C-. and 8 Cumberland Place , Southampton ; ; and Arthur Peacock, 
Esq., Smithies Bridge House, Heckmondwike (Yorkshire), were 
elected Fellows of the Society. 
The List of Donations to the Library was read. 
The Presiprnt referred in feeling terms to the recent calamitous 
occurrences in the West Indies, and to the geological interest of the 
phenomena. The Council had been considering in what way they 
could best give expression to the sympathy of the Fellows, both 
with our own Colonies and with their French neighbours, and had 
requested Sir Archibald Geikie and himself to act as they thought 
best in the matter. 
Prof. Boyp Dawxins moved that the Fellows express their 
sympathy with the sufferers in the two islands, and approve the 
action taken by the Council. 
Mr. H. W. Moncxron seconded the motion, which was carried. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. ‘On Pliocene Glacio-Fluviatile Conglomerates in Subalpine 
France and Switzerland.’ By Charles 8. Du Riche Preller, M.A., 
Pn, A.M 1.0.0.7 M.1,E.E., F.G.S. 
2. ‘Overthrusts and other Disturbances in the Braysdown Col- 
liery (Somerset), and the Bearing of these Phenomena upon the 
Effects of Overthrust-Faults in the Somerset Coalfield in general.’ 
By Frederick Anthony Steart, Esq. (Communicated by Horace B. 
Woodward, Ksq., F.R.S., F.G.S.) 
The following specimens and map were exhibited :-— 
Specimens exhibited in illustration of the paper by F. A. Steart, 
Esq. 
Sheet 21 of the 1-inch Map of the Geological Survey of Scotland— 
Arran, presented by the Director of H.M. Geological Survey. 
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