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REPORT OF THE SESSION 1913-1914.

By A. L. L EACH, F.G.S.

O Rm-NARY M EETI NG, Frida)', November 7th, 1913.-Dr. J. W.Evans, LL.B., D.Sc., F.G.S., President, in the Chair.

R eginald Barrett Andrew, R. Mountford Deeley, F.G.S.,M .LC.E., Hiron Kumar Gupta, Henry Longbottom, F. W. Mann,Miss Margaret Pitts, T . Wilson Parry, M.A., M.D., a.c., M.R.C.S.,L.R.C.P., Frank Raikes. Carl August Stocken, Edward ColstonWilliams, M.D., B.S., F.R.C.S.(Edin.), were elected members ofthe Association.

The meeting was followed by a Conversazione,

LIST OF EXHIBITS.

H.M. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: Maps and Memoirs presented to the Associati onduring the year.

THE PRESIDENT (DR. J. W. EVANS): Specimens collected on Ex cur sions inconnection with the Geolog ical Congress at Toronto, 1913.

G. BARROW: Specimens from the excavations for the Roy al Albert DockExtension.

:\lrss G. M. BAUER: Rock specimen s collected during the Ex cursions toScotland.

F. J. BENNETT: Flint Implements from Essex.W . H. BENNETT: Zona l Fossils from the Coal Measure s, N. Stafford shir e.CHARLES CANDLER: Part of a mass of Chalk embedded in Pl at eau Gravel ,

Headley Heath, Surrey.HARVEY COLLINGRlDGE: Petrological Microscope, fit ted with Fedorow

Stage, with two axes of Rotation.W. H. COOK: Surface Paleeoliths and so-call ed II Eoli th s," Kent Pla teau .G. DIBLEY: Fo ssils from the Ch alk.PHILIP DOLLMAN: Crag Fossils, Ea st Anglia , and Oli gocene Fo ssils, Isle of

Wigh t.H . FLECK: Specimens and Micro-sections of rocks from w ares ana Bombay.G. J. B. Fox: Flint Implement s from Cissbury, Icklingham , and Egypt.J. FRANCIS: Small Liassic Ammonites a nd oth er Jurassic Ceph alopods.J. F. N . GREEN: Mud-pellet tuffs from the Lake Distr ict ; S pecimens

illustra ting Mr. G. Barrow's Thermal Zones in the Southern H ighl ands.'V. F. GWINNELL : Volcan ic Rocks of Kcnyte lava from Mount Ereb us

in Antarctica , including a bomb, wind-eroded lava, phenocryst s ofan orthoclase j Worm borings in quartzite ; Ro cks from Arcti c Gr eenlandin 70° N. lat., with Tertiary plant remains and crin oids ; Vivianite incrystals and fossil pseudomorphs from peat at North Woolw ich.

F. N. HAWARD: Neolithic Implements from Peat bed of the River Crouch,Essex. Examples of N atural bul bs, Cannon Shot gravels, N orfolk, andEaton, Norwich.

R. BRICE HIGGINS: Flint Implements from Crayfcrd,ALEX. ]. HOGG: Paleeolithic Microliths from Forest Gate and Wanstead

Flats.T. HOWSE: Exotic Granites from the Fly sch in the Habkerenthal, Lake of

Thun, Switzerland. These are frag ments of granites which have not beenfound in situ in the Alps. According to one theory, they ar e derived fromsimilar rocks in th e Schwarzwald, but the more generally accepted view is

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that they form part of a complex of rocks thrust from the south over laterbeds and since disintegrated by the action of running water.

JOHN JOHNSON: Fossils from the Calcaire Grossier.H. j. jOHNSON.LAVIS: Water-colours and ancient engravings of the Volcanic

district of Naples.MISS M. S. JOHNSTON: Flint flakes from the district around Thebes, and

Cairo, Egypt.A. S. KENNARD: Eoliths collected from the Kent Plateau by Mr. B. Harrison.DOUGLAS LEIGHTON: Rock specimens from the Lizard.P. A. B. MARTIN: Flint Implements from the Limpsfield Gravels.F. W. PENNY: Rock specimens from the Lizard.T. \V. READER: Photographs taken during Excursions, 1913.J. SCHWARTZ: lllustrations of Aurignacian human remains.REGINALD A. SMITH: Some crucial Implements of flint.R. TERVET: Pitch showing formation of Columnar Structure j Insects

enclosed in fossil gum.H. ELIOT WALTON: Fossils from the Barton Clay.S. HAZZLEDINE WARREN: Supposed Aurignacian Flint types associated

with Beaker pottery on the buried pre-historic surface of the East Coast;Cooking-stones found on hearth-sites below the peat in the excavationsfor the Royal Albert Docks Extension.

A. TODD WHITE: Flint Implements.ARTHUR WRIGLEY: Calcined Flints and Flint Flakes found immediately

below the main peat, Royal Albert Docks Extension.A. C. YOUNG: Rock specimens from the Lizard.G. W. YOUNG: Rock specimens from the Edinburgh district.

ORDINARY MEETING, Friday, December 5th, 191 3·- Dr. J.W. Evans, LL.B., D.Sc., F.G.S., President, in the Chair.

Poh Bao, Edgar Lawrence Crawley, Victor Dvokorsky,A. O. English, Arthur Riley Gillman, Frederic Griffiths, JamesLonsdale Harris, Geoffrey Hastings, Charles Thompson Hunt,James H. A. Jenner, F.E.S., Miss P. K. Jewson, Norman RossJ unner, Ashley Gordon Lowndes, B.A., Major Reginald AdamsMarriott, D.S.O., Stephen Miall, LL.D., Samuel Murray, H. G.Purvis, William Rance, Miss F. K. Rolland, Miss Hilda Sharpe,Chia Chin Shao, Cyril Caldron Smith, B.Sc., Beatrice BucklandTaylor, Arthur Thomas, Charles Taylor Trechmann, B.Sc.,Joseph Hughes Williams, were elected members of the Associa­tion.

Dr. Marie C. Stopes, F.L.S., delivered a lecture entitled" Evolution and Palreobotany,"

On Saturday, December 6th, 1913, arrangements were madefor an afternoon visit to the British Museum (Natural History),South Kensington. Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S., gave a demon­stration on "Fossil Reptilia," with special reference to the Leedscollection from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough.

On the evening of the same day an Official Dinner was heldat the Criterion Restaurant. Dr. A. Strahan, F.R.S., President ofthe Geological Society, and Mrs. Strahan, Mr. F. G. Ogilvie, C.B.,and Mr. H. H. Thomas, Secretary of the Geological Society, werepresent as Guests of the Association, and, in all, seventy-sixmembers and their friends assembled.

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The toast list was as follows:­THE KING: Proposed by the President.THE GEOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION: Proposed by Mr. W. Whitaker, Response

by the President.THE KINDRED SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS: Proposed by Mr. G. W.

Young, Response by Dr. A. Strachan.THE DIRECTORS AND SECRETARIES OF EXCURSIONS: Proposed by Dr.

Bernstein, Response by Mr. A. L. Leach.THE GUESTS: Proposed by Dr. A. Smith Woodward, Response by Mr.

F. G. Ogilvie.THE OFFICERS: Proposed by Mr. J. F. N. Green, Response by Miss

Johnston.

ORDINARY MEETING, Friday, January znd, 19 14·- Dr. J.W. Evans, LL.B., D.Sc., F.G.S., President, in the Chair.

R. Du B. Evans, Miss Annie Ethel Hatton, William ArthurHerron, Miss Joan Milne, Frederick George Percival, HerbertHarold Read, B.Sc., A.RC.S., F.G.S., Wyatt Wingrave, M.D.,M.RC.S" L.R.C.P., were elected members of the Association.

Mr. P. G. H. Boswell, B.Sc., F.G.S., read a paper on "TheNorth Sea Drift and certain Brick-earths in Suffolk;"

A note from Mr. F. W. Harmer, F.G.S., who was unable tobe present, was read as a contribution to the diSCUSSIon, in whichMessrs. Whitaker, Kennard, R A. Smith, Wrigley, The Rev. E.Hill, and the President, took part.

The President announced that a Special General Meetingwould be held on February 6th, to .consider the proposedsubstitution of the words "five Vice-Presidents" for "fourVice-Presidents" in Rule xiii.