The following specimens and maps were exhibited :— A series of flint-implements from the Palæolithic deposits of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, exhibited by Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. Specimens of glaciated jet and a portion of a tusk from the Boulder-Drift of East Yorkshire, exhibited on behalf of P. M. Crosthwaite, M.Inst.C.E., by H. B. Woodward, F.R.S., F.G.S. Rock-specimen and (?) fossil from the Upper Greensand near Mintern Magna (Dorset), exhibited on behalf of E. A. Ffooks, by H. B. Woodward, F.R.S., F.G.S. Palæolithic anvil-stone (?) from Ruscombe (Berkshire), 170 feet above sea-level, exhibited by Ll. Treacher, F.G.S. Viscid flow-structure in bottle-glass, produced accidentally by hydrofluoric acid, exhibited by H. Bauerman, F.G.S. Geological Survey of Ireland:--1-inch map-Sheet 8, Ballycastle, new edition, 1907, presented by that Department. Map showing the Occurrence of Metals, Coal, Salt, & other Minerals in Hungary, on the scale of by J. Bockh & A. Gesell, 1898, presented by the Royal Hungarian Minister of Finance. 1 900,000 Five sheets of the Geological-Survey Map of Japan, on the scale of 20,000 presented by the Director of that Survey. 1 Map of the New Rand Goldfield (Orange River Colony), on the scale of 17.04 miles to the inch, by A. R. Sawyer, 1907, presented by the Author. January 8th, 1908. Sir ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, K.C.B., D.C.L., Sc.D., Sec.R.S., President, in the Chair. Austin J. R. Atkin, Mining Engineer, Steynsdorp, Transvaal (South Africa), and G. C. Cossar, B.A. (Oxon.), East Craigs, Corstorphine (Midlothian), were elected Fellows; and Dr. Feodor Černyshev, of St. Petersburg, was elected a Foreign Correspondent of the Society. The following Fellows, nominated by the Council, were elected -RICHARD Auditors of the Society's Accounts for the preceding year :HILL TIDDEMAN, M.A., and ALFRED EDWARD SALTER, D.Sc. The List of Donations to the Library was read. The following communications were read :— 1. Chronology of the Glacial Epoch in North America.' By Prof. George Frederick Wright, F.G.S.A. (Communicated by Prof. E. J. Garwood, M.A., Sec.G.S.) 2. On the Application of Quantitative Methods to the Study of the Structure and History of Rocks.' By Henry Clifton Sorby, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. The following lantern-slides and maps were exhibited : Lantern-slides, exhibited on behalf of Prof. G. F. Wright, F.G.S.A., in illustration of his paper. Lantern-slides, exhibited by Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. Geologic Atlas of the United States: Folios 141 & 142, 1906; 143-150, 1907, presented by the Director of the United States Geological Survey. January 22nd, 1908. Sir ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, K.C.B., D.C.L., Sc.D., Sec.R.S., President, in the Chair. The List of Donations to the Library was read. The following communications were read :— 1. 'The Origin of the Pillow-Lava near Port Isaac in Cornwall.' By Clement Reid, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., and Henry Dewey, F.G.S. (Communicated by permission of the Director of H.M. Geological Survey.) 2. On the Subdivision of the Chalk at Trimmingham (Norfolk).' By Reginald Marr Brydone, F.G.S. The following specimens, lantern-slides, and maps were exhibited : Specimens of pillow-lava from Port Isaac (Cornwall), and lantern-slides, exhibited by C. Reid, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., and H. Dewey, F.G.S., in illustration of their paper. Specimens and lantern-slides exhibited by R. M. Brydone, F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. Geological Survey of England and Wales: twelve sheets of the 6-inch maps of South Wales, presented by the Director of H.M. Geological Survey. Geological Survey of the Transvaal Sheet No. 1-Pretoria, 1 inch = 24 miles, presented by the Director of that Survey. February 5th, 1908. Sir ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, K.C.B., D.C.L., Sc.D., Sec.R.S., President, in the Chair. John Frederick Norman Green, 15 Bramshill Gardens, Dartmouth Park, N.W.; Harold S. Harger, 42 Cullinan Buildings, Johannesburg (Transvaal); George H. Cory Wright, LL.B., 88 Hardturm Strasse, Zürich (Switzerland); and William Wright, 9 Endlesham Road, Nightingale Lane, S.W., were elected Fellows of the Society. The List of Donations to the Library was read. The following communications were read: 1. On Antigorite and the Val Antigorio, with Notes on other Serpentines containing that Mineral.' By Prof. T. G. Bonney, Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 2. The St. David's-Head "Rock-Series" (Pembrokeshire).' By James Vincent Elsden, B.Sc., F.G.S. The following specimens and maps were exhibited : : Rock-specimens and microscope-sections, exhibited by Prof. T. G. Bonney, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. Photographs, rock-specimens, and lantern-slides, exhibited by J. V. Elsden, B.Sc., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. 1 40,000 Geological Map of Two hundred and eight Sheets of the the Belgian Geological Survey, presented by the Director of that Survey, M. M. F. Mourlon, F.C.G.S. February 19th, 1908. Sir ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, K.C.B., D.C.L., Sc.D., Sec.R.S., President, in the Chair. Alfred William Gustave Bleeck, M.E., Ph.D. (Munich), 5 Rainey Park, Ballygunge, Calcutta (India); Alexander Östrand Brown, B.A., Assoc. R.S.M., Minas Peña del Hierro, por Rio Tinto, Huelva (Spain); Henry Charles Drake, 6 Lee Street, Hull; Robert Marcus Gunn, M.A., M.B., F.R.C.S., 54 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, W.; William H. Marston, B.Sc., 63 Stanmore Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham; and Basil Schön, M.A., Seafield-Park Engineering College, Fareham (Hampshire), were elected Fellows of the Society. The List of Donations to the Library was read. The following communications were read : 1. The Two Earth-Movements of Colonsay." Bourke Wright, B.A., F.G.S. (Communicated by the Director of H.M. Geological Survey.) By William permission of 2. 'Notes on the River Wey.' By Henry Bury, M.A., F.L.S.. F.G.S. The following lantern-slides and maps were exhibited :— Lantern-slides, exhibited by W. B. Wright, B.A., F.G.S., in illustration of his paper. Geological Survey of England and Wales: 1-inch maps, n. s., Sheets 348 and 353 (colour-printed), 1907, presented by the Director of H.M. Geological Survey. Geological Survey of Canada: geological map of a group of townships adjoining Lake Timiskaming (Quebec), on the scale of 2 miles to the inch, 1906, presented by the Director of that Survey. 1 75,000 K. k. Geologische Reichsanstalt : geological map-S.W. Group, Sheets 6, 13, 18, 93, and 94; N.W. Group, Sheet 85, 1907, presented by the Director of that Institution. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, February 21st, 1908. Sir ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., Sec.R.S., President, in the Chair. REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1907. THE flourishing condition of the Society was marked in the past year by a further increase in the Number of Fellows. In 1907 the Fellows elected numbered 74 (as compared with 54 in 1906), and 58 of these paid their Admission-Fees before the end of the year. Moreover, 16 Fellows who had been elected in the previous year paid their Admission-Fees in 1907, making the total Accession of new Fellows within the twelve months under review amount to 74. Setting against this number a loss of 47 Fellows (27 by death, 9 by resignation, and 11 by removal from the List, under Bye-Laws, Sect. VI, Art. 5), it will be noted that there is an increase in the Number of Fellows of 27 (as compared with an increase of 12 in 1906, and a decrease of 12 in 1905). The total Number of Fellows is thus increased to 1278, made up as follows:-Compounders, 266 (7 less than in 1906); Contributing Fellows, 981 (35 more than in 1906, and 55 more than in 1905); and Non-Contributing Fellows, 31 (1 less than in 1906). Turning now to the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign Correspondents, we have to deplore the loss of two illustrious Foreign Members, Prof. Marcel Bertrand and Dr. Edmund Mojsisovics; and also the loss of one Foreign Correspondent, Prof. Carl Klein. Moreover, at the end of 1906, there had remained one vacancy in the List of Foreign Correspondents. These vacancies were, in part, filled by the transfer of Dr. E. E. A. Tietze and Prof. A. Issel from the List of Foreign Correspondents to that of Foreign Members; and by the election of Baron G. J. de Geer and Prof. A. Baltzer as Foreign Correspondents. At the end of 1907 there were still 2 vacancies in the List of Foreign Correspondents. VOL. LXIV. b |