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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Section VI. B, Article 6, of the Bye-laws : — W. H. Peacock, Esq., 

 and W. Salmon, Esq. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On Eemains of a small Lizard from the Neocomian Rocks of 

 Comen, near Trieste, preserved in the Geological Museum of the 

 University of Vienna." By Prof. H. G. Seeley, E.R.S., E.G.S. 



2. " On the Beds at Headon Hill and Colwell Bay in the Isle of 

 Wight." By H. Keeping, Esq., and E. B. Tawney, Esq., M.A., 

 E.G.S. 



Specimens were exhibited by Prof. Seeley and Messrs. Tawney and 

 Keeping in illustration of their papers. 



December 15, 1880. 



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



William Elijah Benton, Esq., Assoc. R.S.M., Highfield House,. 

 Heather, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch ; Rev. George Clements, 26 St. 

 Martin's Road, Stockwell ; J. Kerr Gulland, Esq., C.E., 6 a Victoria 

 Street, S.W., and Ball's Pond Road, N. ; Erancis T. S. Houghton, 

 Esq., B.A., Wynnstay, Balsall Heath, Birmingham ; George Bingley 

 Luke, Esq., Northbank House, Prestonpans, N.B. ; and William 

 Mansell MacCnlloch, Esq., MD., 12 Cork Street, Burlington Gardens, 

 W., were elected Eellows ; and Professor Luigi Bellardi, of Turin, 

 and Dr. M. Neumayr, of Vienna, Eoreign Correspondents of the 

 Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Constitution and History of Grits and Sandstones." 

 By John Arthur Phillips, Esq., E.G.S. 



The Chair was then taken by J. W. Htjlke, Esq., E.R.S., 

 V.P.G.S. 



2. <£ On a New Species of Trigonia from the Purbeck Beds of the 

 Vale of Wardour." By R. Etheridge, Esq., E.R.S., President. With 

 a Note on the Stratigraphical position of the Eossil by the Rev. W. 

 R. Andrews. 



