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LONDON Mineralogical Society, October 20.—The Rev. Prof. Bonney, President, in the chair—Messrs. F. R. W. Daw, John Daw, Jun., G. F. Kung, and C. C. Ross, M.P., were elected members. The following were elected officers and Council for the ensuing year:—Preident: L. Fletcher, F.G.S.; Vice-Presidents: Rev. S. Haughton, F. R. S., Rev. Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S.; Council: C. A. Burghardt, LL.D., A. Geikie, F.R.S., Rev. H. Gurney, MA., Hugo Muller, F.R.S., Rev. W. W. Peyton: Treasurer: R. P. Greg, F.G. S.; General Secretary: R. H. Scott, F.R.S.; Foreign Secretary: T. Davies, F.G.S.; Auditors: B. Kitto, F.G.S., F. W. Rudler, F.G.S. The Secretary read the following Beport of Council:—The balance-sheet for the year 1884, which appeared in No. 28 of the Journal, showed that the finances of the Society were in a healthy condition, the excess of assets over liabilities amounting to 215l. 12s. 4d. The number of Members and Associates elected during the year has been seven, and the number of resignations five, while the names of four Members and one Associate have been removed from the list for non-pay-ment of subscriptions for three years. The Council regret that they have to report also the death of Alexander Murray, C.M.G., of St. John's, Newfoundland. Three meetings have taken place since the last anniversary: those in December and March were held in the Museum of Economic Geology, by kind permission of the Director-General of the Survey; the third was held in Glasgow in the month of June, in the rooms of the Philosophical-Society. This, the second Scottish meeting, was, like its predecessor in 1884, a decided success. Three parts of the Journal have been issued during the year. Among their contents the Council would especially draw attention to Mr. Miers' contributions, including his careful index to the mineralogical literature of the year. Herr Sjögren's paper on graphite also deserves notice; it is a translation from the Swedish, as it originally appeared in the Forkandlingar of the Stockholm Academy. In conclusion the Council would only remind the members that it is very desirable that they should cooperate actively in the working of the Society by the contribution of papers to be read at its meetings and published in its Journal. It is by such cooperation alone that the Society can be maintained in a state of vigorous activity. The President then delivered his address, which will appear in the Journal. Prof. Bonney then vacated the chair, which was taken by the newly-elected President, Mr. Fletcher, and the following papers were read:—H. A. Miers, on a crystal of orthoclase.—R. H. Solly, notes from the Mineralogical Laboratory, Cambridge, being an account of the following minerals:—garnet, axinite, asbestus, and semiopal fiom the Mid-Devon Copper Mine, apatite or Francolite from the Levant Mine, and Floor Spar from Holmbush.—Dr. Max Schuster, results of the crystallographic study of danburite.—W. E. Dawson, analysis of a supposed new chromate of lead from the Transvaal.—Prof. Lewis exhibited a fine crystal of colemanite; and Mr. Fletcher exhibited some Roman coins found near Chester and presenting crystals of cuprite.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 33, 23–24 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033023b0
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