PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



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2. " On the Dentition and Affinities of the Selachian Genus 

 Ptychodus, Agassiz." By A. Smith Woodward, Esq., F.G.S. 



3. " On a Molar of a Pliocene type of Equus from Nubia." Bv 

 R. Lydekker, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens of Xummulites, exhibited by Prof. T. Rupert Jones, 

 F.R.S., P.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 



Specimens, exhibited by Henry Willett, Esq., F.G.S., and Dr. H. 

 Woodward, F.R.S., F.G.S., in illustration of the paper by A. Smith 

 W oodward, Esq., F.G.S. 



Two molars of Equus, exhibited by R. Lydekker, Esq., F.G.S., in 

 illustration of his paper. 



January 12, 1887. 



Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Frederick Joseph Forfeitt, Esq., Medburn, near Elstree, Hert- 

 fordshire ; James Lemon, Esq.,' M.Inst.C.E., Lansdowno House, 

 Southampton, and Palace Chambers, "Westminster ; Charles Samuel 

 llouth, Esq., 14 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury ; and Thomas 

 Dayies Whittiugton, Esq., B.A., 6 Norlands, East Dulwich Road, 

 S.E., were elected Fellows ; Professor Josiah Dwight Whitney, of 

 Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., a Foreign Member, and Professor A. de 

 Lapparent, of Paris, a Foreign Correspondent of the Society. 



The List of Douations to the Library was read. 



The President announced the sad loss which the Society had 

 sustained since the last Meeting by the death of Mr. John Arthur 

 Phillips, F.R.S., who had been for several years a valuable member 

 of the Council, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 41 The Ardtun Leaf-beds." By J. Starkie Gardner, Esq., 

 F.G.S., F.L.S. ; with Notes by Grenville A. J. Cole, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. " On the Echinoidea of the Cretaceous Strata of the Lower 

 Narbada Region." By Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.B., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



3. " On certain Dinosaurian Vertebras from the Cretaceous of India 

 and the Isle of Wight." By R. Lydekker, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 



4. " Further Notes on the Results of some deep Borings in Kent." 

 By W. Whitaker, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 



