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June 8, 1881. 



E. Etheeidge, Esq., F.B.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Meeting was made a Special General Meeting for the election 

 of a Member of the Council in the room of the late Sir P. de Malpas 

 Grey-Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



The Peesident announced that the late Sir Philip Egerton had 

 bequeathed to the Society all the original drawings made from 

 specimens in the collection of the Earl of Enniskillen for the illus- 

 tration of Prof. Agassiz's works on Fossil Fishes. The Society had 

 long possessed the drawings made for the same purpose from the 

 Earl of Ellesmere's collection, and some years ago the Earl of 

 Enniskillen presented those which had been prepared from speci- 

 mens in the possession of Sir Philip Egerton. Sir Philip Egerton's 

 kind bequest would complete this interesting series. 



Mr. John Evans remarked that on this, as on so many other 

 occasions, the Society was deeply indebted to the kindness of the 

 late Sir Philip Egerton, and proposed that the President and Secre- 

 taries should be instructed to communicate with Sir Philip's repre- 

 sentatives, and to express the gratitude of the Society for this 

 bequest and their condolence with his relatives on the loss they 

 have sustained. 



Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins seconded this proposal, which was carried 

 unanimously. 



The ballot for a new member of Council was kept open till 9 

 o'clock, when Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.E.S., was declared 

 to have been elected. 



Grenville A. J. Cole, Esq., Mayland, Sutton, Surrey, and J. L. 

 Eoberti, Esq., 92 Malpas Eoad, New Cross, S.E., were elected 

 Fellows ; and II Commendatore Quintino Sella, of Eome, a Foreign 

 Member of the Society. 



The following names of Fellows of the Society were read out for 

 the first time in conformity with the Bye-laws, Sect. VI. b, Art. 6, 

 in consequence of the non-payment of the arrears of their contribu- 

 tions : — J. Entwisle, Esq. ; E. Koma, Esq. ; W. H. Le Feuvre, Esq.; 

 C. S. Mann, Esq. ; Joseph Thompson, Esq. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " The Eeptile-Fauna of the Gosau Formation, preserved in the 

 Geological Museum of the University of Vienna." By Prof. H. G. 

 Seeley, F.E.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. ; with a Note on the Geological 

 Horizon of the Fossils, by Prof. Edward Suess, F.M.G.S. 



2. " On the Basement-beds of the Cambrian in Anglesey." By 

 Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, M.A., F.G.S. 



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