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The Officers elected for tlie ensuing year are": — President : Prof. A. C. 

 Eanisay. Vice-Presidents : Sir P. de M. Gr. Egerton ; Sir Charles Lyell ; 

 John Carrick Moore, Esq. ; Prof. John Morris. Secretaries : Prof. T. H. 

 Huxley ; Warington W. Smyth, Esq. Foreign Secretary : W. J. Ha- 

 milton, Esq. Treasurer : Joseph Prestwich, Esq. Council : John J. 

 Bigsby, M.D. ; Sir Charles Bunljury ; Robert Chambers, Esq. ; Sir P. de 

 M. G. Egerton ; Earl of InniskiUen ; Hugh Falconer, M.D. ; W. J. Ha- 

 milton, Esq. ; Leonard Horner, Esq. ; Prof. T. H. Huxley ; John Lub- 

 bock, Esq.; Sir Charles Lyell; John Carrick Moore, Esq.; Edward 

 Meryon, M.D. ; Prof. John Morris; Sir E. I. Murchison ; Robert W. 

 Mylne, Esq. ; Joseph Prestwich, Esq. ; Prof. A. C. Eamsay ; Gr. P. Scrope, 

 Esq. ; Warington W, Smyth, Esq. ; Alfred Tylor, Esq. ; Rev. Thomas 

 Wiltshire ; S. P. Woodward, Esq. 



Fehruary 26, 1862. — Prof. Ramsay, President, in the chair. 



Special General Meeting. — It was resolved that the annual contribu- 

 tion to be paid by both Resident and on-Resident Eellows elected after 

 the 1st of March next shall be two pounds two shillings per annum ; the 

 composition for future annual contributions being twenty-one pounds. 



Ordinary Meeting. — The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Drift containing Arctic Shells in the neighbourhood of Wol- 

 verhampton." By the Rev. W. Lister, E.G-.S. In the parish of Bushbury, 

 at the junction of the London and North-Western, the West Midland, and 

 the Stour-Valley Railways, is a gravel, with clay, sand, and pebbles, rolled 

 Liassic fossils, flints, pieces of coal and of wood, and more or less fragmen- 

 tary shells of the following species (as determined by J. G. Jeffreys, Esq., 

 E.R.S., E.G.S.) : — Astarte arctica, Cardmm ecJdnatum, C. edule, Cyprina 

 Islandica, Modiola modiolus, Tajpes virginea, Tellina solidula, Venus 

 striatula, Litorina squalida, Nassa reticulata, Purpura lapillus, and Tur- 

 ritella communis. The Astarte and the Litorina are not now found living 

 in our seas. Similar fossil shells have been also found by the author at 

 Oxley Manor, half a mile to the IST.W. ; by Mr. G. E. Roberts at Acleton, 

 eight miles to the S.W. ; and by Mr. Beckett elsewhere. Liassic fossils 

 have also been found in the gravel at Compton Holloway and at Wight- 

 wick (both in the parish of Tettenhall), and at Wolverhampton. 



2. " On a Split Boulder in Little Cumbra, Western Isles." By James 

 Smith, Esq., E.R.S., E.G.S. The islands of Great and Little Cumbra 

 have (like the west coast of Scotland) a cliff and terrace, indicating an ele- 

 vation of about 40 feet above the present level of the sea, and the removal of 

 at least 100 feet of rock (sandstone and trap) ; the sea at its present level 

 having worn away the rock to the extent of only a small fraction of an inch. 

 The terrace on the Little Cumbra has been moreover ground down and 

 scratched by ice-action, the strise passing unobliterated under the present 

 sea ; and on the terrace lies a split boulder, such as are known to fall from 

 glaciers, and which the author thinks must also in this case have fallen 

 from an escarpment of ice. 



3. " On the Ice-worn Rocks of Scotland." By T. E. Jamieson, E.G.S. 

 The author, first referring to the eroded surface of the rocks beneath the 

 Drift-beds in Scotland, proceeded to show that the action of ice, and not 

 that of torrents, could produce such markings, as he had observed in the 

 bed of a mountain-stream in Argyllshire, down which had poured the tor- 

 rent caused by the bursting of the reservoirs of the Crinan Canal. He then 

 advanced reasons for considering that the erosion of the rocks in Scotland 

 was due chiefly to land-ice ancl not to water-borne ice, bringing forward 

 remarkable instances of ice-action on the glens and on the hill-sides at 

 Loch Treig and Glen Spean, where moraines, blocs perches, strise, roches 



