PEOCEEDINGS OF GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. 
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The Officers elected for tlie ensuing year are : — President : Prof. A. C. 
Eamsay. Vice-Presidents : Sir P. de M. G. 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 Prest^Yich, Esq. Council: John J. 
Bigsby, M.D. ; Sir Charles Bunbury ; Robert Chambers, Esq. ; Sir P. de 
M. G. Egerton ; Earl of Inniskillen; 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. 
Mylue, Esq. ; Joseph Prestwich, Esq. ; Prof. A. C. Ramsay ; G. P. Scrope, 
Esq. ; Warington W. Smyth, Esq. ; Alfred Tylor, Esq. ; Rev. Thomas 
Wiltshire ; S. P. Woodward, Esq. 
February 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 Non-Resident Fellows 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, F.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., 
F.R.S., F.G.S.) : — Astarte arctica, Cardium echinatum, C. edule, Cyprina 
Islandica, Modiola modiolus. Tapes 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 JST.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., F.R.S., F.G.S. The islands of Great and Little Cumbra 
have (like the west coast of Scotland) a clifi'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 striae 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. F. Jamieson, F.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 and 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, stria), rochea 
