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REPORT OF THE SESSION, 1916-17.

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

ORDINARY MEETING, Saturday, November 4th,I916.-GeorgeBarrow, F.G.S.• M.I.M.M., President, in the Chair.

Herbert K. Scott was elected a member of the Association.The meeting was followed by a Conversazione.

LIST OF EXHIBITS.

THE PRESIDENT (G. Barrow): Soecimens of the Lignite Bed, Albert Docks,illustrating the formation of Coal.

THE DIRECTOR 01' THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: Selection of Memoirs andMaps.

C. E. ALLNUTT: British Paleeoliths from Kent and Eastern Counties.E. E. S. BROWN: Palatal teeth of Wrasse, Blackheath Beds, Eltham, and a

series of lossils from Woolwich and Blackheath Beds in North Kent.A. J. BULL: Fossils showing traces of coloration, Lower Lias, Yawl, Devon.W. T. BURGESS: Crystalline calcite, deposited from clear water, softened by

Clark's process.H. BURY: Paleeoliths from the Farnham District.R. H. CHANDLER: Flint implement of Les Eyzies type from a working floor,

Foot's Cray, Kent.G. E. DlBLEY: Cidaridse, Cyphosornze, and Asteroidea from the Chalk.DR. J. W. EVANS: Flints, worked and unworked.J. FRANCIS: Large Liassic Ammonites; four Jurassic Ammonites and a

Belemnite, Kachpour. Russia; Belemnite from near Mons; Cidarisspine, Joppa; Fluorspar. Peak District, Derbyshire.

G. J B. Fox: lmplements found at Mons; Celts found in the Thames;Flint and other implements, Tasmania,

J. F. N. GREEN: Polygenetic grits from basal beds of the Bala Series in thenorth-west of England; rock specimens, Lake District.

C. J. GRIST: Palaeolithic implements from the Kentish Plateau.J. GRQV!';S and CLEMENT REID: Fossil Characeee from the Middle Purbecks.W. F. GWINNELL: Rock specimens to illustrate" Fossil Weather," e.g.,

Rain-prints, Sun-cracks, Ripple-marks, Dreikanter, etc. ; rocks, lichens,volcanic bombs, etc., from Mount Erebus and the Beacon Sandstone,Antarctica; views and maps relating to Shackleton's party, 1908-9;Skeleton of Dodo (D/dus ineplus).

F. N. HAWARD: Flint implements from Grimes Graves.H. L. HAWKINS: Natural scale relief models of Central Shropshire and

Malvern; selection of rare fossils from Reading University CollegeMuseum.

W. B. HrGGINS : Flint implements from Rickmansworth.REV H. N. HUTCHINSON: Model of Diplodocus Carnegiei.MISS M. S. JOHNSTON: Fossil fish from Pleistocene clay near Ottawa;

the Association's Album ofGeological Photographs.A. S. KENNARD: Palreolithic Flint implements, West Wickham.J. NEWTON: Remarkable boulders (1septaria) from a moraine near Conway,

N. Wales.W. WHITAKER on behalf of G. W. MOORE: Paleeolithic implement from a

trench in gravel near Bray, France.T. W. READER: Fossils and rock specimens, Mere, Dorset; photographs

taken during recent excursions.

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R. A. SMITH: Flint implement found by Dr. Eliot Curwen at Slindon,Sussex, in gravel, 3! miles due east of the Raised Beach at Goodwood.

W. W. SMlTHETT: Tertiary fossils collected in Western Egypt duringSenussi Expedition, 1915-10.

L. D. STAMP: Comparative series of British and American Palaeozoic fossils.H. C. SARGENT: Vein minerals from Penmaenmawr and Cherts from

Derbyshire.A. H. WILLIAMS: Fossils collected on the Long Excursion to Raven­

stonedale .and Shap,DR. WYATT WINGRAVE: Fossils from Inferior Oolite Sands of Dorset j

Coprolites from Lower Lias, Lyme Regis j Sinistral Gasteropods fromthe Red Crag.

W. WRIGHT: Fossils from the Lenham Beds, Netley Heath, Surrey.MISS M. E. WOODWARD: Fossils collected on the Mere Excursion, Easter,

1916.DR. A. S. WOODWARD : Hammer Stone from the Piltdown gravel.A. WRIGLEY: Ammonites from the Oxford Clay.

ORDINARY MEETING, Saturday, December znd, 1916.-\Vm.Whitaker, F.R.S., F.G.S., Vice-President, in the chair.

Edward Greenly, Edward Donald Nicholson and E. A.Turner were elected members of the Association.

Mr. Henry Bury, M.A., F.G.S., read a paper entitled, "ThePaleeoliths of Farnham." (See PROCEEDINGS, vol. xxvii, p. 151.)

ORDINARY ~EETING, Saturday, Ja1luary 6th, 1917.-GeorgeBarrow, F.G.S., M.I.M.M., President, in the Chair.

George Grace and Charles J. Richardson were elected mem­bers of the Association.

Messrs. P. McIntyre and G. McD. Davies were appointedAuditors of the Accounts for the year 1916.

Mr. W. D. Lang read a paper entitled, "On the Ibex-Zone atCharmouth and its relation to the Zones near it."

Mr. J. F. N. Green read a paper on "The Age of the ChiefIntrusions of the Lake District."

ANNUALGENERALMEETING, Saturday, February 3rd, 1917.­George Barrow, F.G.S., M.I.M.M., President, in the Chair.

Messrs. E. E. S. Brown and A. J. Bull were appointedScrutineers, and the Ballot declared open.

The report of the Council for the year 1916 (see vol. xxviii,p. 52) was then read. It was moved by Mr. W. Johnson,seconded by Mr. H. Fleck, and duly carried, "That the Reportjust read, including the Statement of Account, be adopted asthe Annual Report of the Association for the year. 1916."