PROCEEDINGS 



OE THE 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1880-81. 



November 3, 1880. 

 Robert Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Bernard Barham Woodward, Esq., 19 Stowe Road, Shepherd's 

 Bush, W., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following specimens were presented to the Museum : — 



Twenty specimens of Carboniferous Limestone Fossils from Flat- 

 head River, Rocky Mountains (49th Parallel N.W. America), pre- 

 sented by H. Bauerman, Esq., F.G.S. 



The President announced that the original portrait of Dr. William 

 Smith, painted by M. Fourau in the year 1837, had been presented 

 to the Society by William Smith, Esq., of Cheltenham. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Serpentine and Associated Rocks of Anglesey, with a 

 Note on the so-called Serpentine of Porthdinllevn (Caernarvonshire)." 

 By Prof. T. G. Bonney, M.A., F.R.S., Sec. G.S. 



2. " Note on the Occurrence of Remains of Recent Plants in 

 Brown Iron-ore." By J. Arthur Phillips, Esq., F.Gr.S. 



3. " Notes on the Locality of some Fossils found in the Carboni- 

 ferous Rocks at T'ang Shan, situated, in a N.N.E. direction, about 

 120 miles from Tientsin, in the province of Chih Li, China." By 



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