March 8th, igio.] PROCEEDINGS. xv 



Ordinary Meeting, March 8th, 1910. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the Members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the tables. 



Mr. D. M. S. Watson, B.Sc, read a paper entitled " Upper 

 Liassic Reptilia. Part II. The Sauropterygia of the 

 Whitby Museum." The paper is printed in full in the 

 Memoirs. 



Sir William H. Bailey read the following paper : — "Mr. 

 Hewitt Myring's Discoveries of Pre-Historic Pottery 

 in Peru." 



Pre-historic man and his methods of life may be best studied 

 by his pottery ; it is one of the earliest and simplest of crafts, for 

 by means of baked clay, with his fingers and the most elementary 

 tools of wood or stone he could shape his cooking pots or gods, 

 his jugs, bottles and urns, and these have as much interest to the 

 archseologist and art student as earthenware fossil plants, and 

 those fossils of animal life which 



"Through the ages lying 

 In the buried past of the earth " 



have to the geologist and students of the botany of the ancient 

 world. 



I have seen the pottery discovered by Mr. Hewitt Myring, 

 and he has been good enough, at short notice, to lend me many 

 photographs. 



I hope that we may, before long, see some of his specimens 

 in Manchester. 



Mr. Myring is a mineralogist and mine owner, and while 

 waiting for assistant engineers' reports, he, being in South 

 America, visited the Chucana Valley in Peru, and, seeing some 

 sand ridges, he there obtained assistance and explored them with 

 a view to finding something in the Inca graves. But the race 



