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PROCEEDING'S OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Macduff Terrace, Danby Street, Peckharn, S.E. ; Charles Horsley, 

 Esq., C.E., 174 Highbury New Park, N. ; Edwiu Simpson-Baikie, 

 Esq., F.L.S., United University Club, Pall Mall East, S.W. ; and 

 Charles John Wood, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., 2 Selbourne Terrace, Bradford. 

 Yorkshire, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President called attention to the valuable donation made to 

 the Library by Dr. J. J. Bigsby, F.B.S., F.G.S., of the set of six 

 volumes of the '' Reports of the Geological Survey of Illinois,' the 

 last four volumes of which are extremely rare on this side of the 

 Atlantic, if not almost unique. A special vote of thanks was passed 

 to Dr. Bigsby for his present. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Further Notes on the Family Diastoporidse, Busk." By G. R. 

 Vine, Esq. Communicated by Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.B.Lond., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. " Further Notes on the Carboniferous Fenestellidse." Bv G. 

 W. Shrubsole, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited :— - 



Specimens of Opal, Chalcedony, &c, from Australia, exhibited by 

 Prof. James Tennant, F.G.S. 



Specimens of FenesteUidoD, exhibited by Mr. Shrubsole in illus- 

 tration of his paper. 



February 2, 1881. 

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



Joseph Groves, Esq., B.A., M.B.Lond., Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight ; 

 George Lewis, Esq., Green Hill, Derby; Rev. Edouard Mechin, S.J., 

 St. Beuno's College, St. Asaph, North Wales ; James Osborne, Esq., 

 Rio Tinto, Province of Huelva, Spain ; and the Rev. William Shar- 

 man, 20 Headland, PI}' mouth, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. <; On the Coralliferous Series of Sind, and its connexion with 

 the last Upheaval of the Himalayas." By Prof. P. Martin Duncan, 

 M.B.Lond., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. "On two new Crinoids from the Upper Chalk of Southern 

 Sweden." Bv P. H. Carpenter, Esq., M.A. Communicated by 

 Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.B.Lond., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



