GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Wednesday, 8th June. RODERICK IMPEY 3InactusoN, Esq. Pre- sident, in the Chair. The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of this Society :—Henry Aglionby, Esq , Marmaduke Ramsay, Esq., Lord King, and the Reverend E. Stanley. A letter was read from Joshua Trimmer, Esq. to the Reverend Dr. Buckland, V.P.G.S., &c., "on the Diluvial Deposits of Carnarvonshire, between the Snowdon Chain of Hills and the .Menai Strait ; and on the Discovery of Marine Shells in the Diluvial Gravel on the summit of Moel Tryfane, near Car- narvon, one thousand feet above the level of the sea." Among the dona- tions to the museum, announced at this meeting, were a collection con- sisting of five hundred specimens, illustrative of the mines in the parishes of St. Just, Paul, and Galval, presented by IV. J. Henwood, Esq.; a Suite of Fossils from the Transition Formations of the County of Kerry, the gift of Thomas Weaver, Esq., F.G.S.; a Series of the Fossil Seed Vessels and Shells found in the Isle of Sheppey, presented by the Reverend Henry Engleheart ; and a Collection of Geological Specimens from Van Diemen's Land and Ems, presented by Leonard Horner, Esq., V.P.G.S. Among the donations to the library, were the two last parts of the " Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society," presented by the members of that society ; the First Num- ber of Mr. Brockedon's new work, illustrating the Route from Lon- don to Naples, presented by the Author ; and a Lithographic Sketch of the Valley of Gosau, drawn from nature by Mrs. Murchison, and pre- sented through the President. At the close of this meeting, which terminated the session, the Society adjonrued till Wednesday, the 2nd November, 1831.
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