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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  GEOLOGICAL  SOCIETY.  [Feb.  1 893, 
December  21st,  1892. 
Prof.  J.  W.  Judd,  F.B.S.,  Vice-President,  in  the  Chair. 
Basil  Wilfred  Bowdler,  Esq.,  2nd  Lieutenant  B.E.,  Chatham ; 
Edward  Power,  Esq.,  12  Bolton  Gardens,  South  Kensington,  S.W. ; 
and  William  Frederick  Smeeth,  Esq.,  B.A.,  Assoc.B.S.M.,  De¬ 
monstrator  in  Geology  in  the  University  of  Sydney,  N.S.W.,  8  Mall 
Boad,  Hammersmith,  W.,  were  elected  Fellows  of  the  Society. 
The  List  of  Donations  to  the  Library  was  read. 
Two  documents,  which  had  belonged  to  the  late  Sir  Bichard  Owen, 
were  presented  by  C.  Davies  Sherborn,  Esq.,  F.G.S. 
The  Chairman  gave  expression  to  the  Society’s  deep  sense  of  the 
loss  which  it  had  just  sustained  by  the  death  of  so  distinguished  a 
Fellow  as  Sir  Bichard  Owen,  who  had  been  associated  with  the 
Society  for  no  less  than  fifty-five  years.  He  further  announced 
that  the  Council,  in  causing  a  resolution  of  condolence  to  be  for¬ 
warded  to  the  bereaved  family,  had  deputed  Dr.  Hicks  and  himself 
to  represent  the  Society  at  Sir  Bichard’s  funeral. 
In  explanation  of  certain  specimens  of  fossils  exhibited  by  J.  V. 
Parkes,  Esq.,  F.G.S.,  and  found  in  limestones  about  11  miles  north 
of  Beltana  Township,  South  Australia,  Dr.  G.  J.  Hinde  said  that 
the  limestone-slabs  forwarded  by  Mr.  Parkes  were  filled  with  the 
peculiar  fossils  belonging  to  the  family  Archseoeyathinse,  which  had 
been  considered  as  probably  allied  to  Perforate  Corals.  These  fossils 
were  widely  distributed  in  rocks  of  Cambrian  age  in  various  parts 
of  the  world,  having  been  found  in  Nevada,  Labrador,  Spain,  and 
Sardinia,  and  they  had  lately  been  recognized  in  the  same  district 
in  South  Australia  as  that  whence  Mr.  Parkes’s  specimens  had  been 
obtained,  and  an  excellent  description  and  figures  of  them  were 
given  by  Mr.  B.  Etheridge,  jun.,  in  the  ‘  Transactions  of  the  Boyal 
Society  of  South  Australia,’  1890,  pp.  10-22,  pis.  ii.,  iii. 
The  following  communications  were  read : — 
1.  “  On  a  Sauropodous  Dinosaurian  Vertebra  from  the  Wealden 
of  HastiDgs.”  By  B.  Lydekker,  Esq.,  B.A.,  F.G.S. 
2.  “  On  some  additional  Bemains  of  Cestraciont  and  other  Fishes 
in  the  Green  Gritty  Marls,  immediately  overlying  the  Bed  Marls  of 
the  Upper  Keuper  in  Warwickshire.”  By  the  Bev.  P.  B.  Brodie, 
M.A.,  F.G.S. 
3.  “Calamostachys  Binneyana ,  Schimp.”  By  Thomas  Hick,  Esq., 
B.A.,  B.Sc.  Communicated  by  J.  W.  Davis,  Esq.,  F.G.S.,  F.L.S.1 
1  This  paper  has  been  withdrawn  by  permission  of  the  Council. 
