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Again we have a most interesting Calendar of Nature, and Mr. 

 Reeve's carefully registered Meteorological Summary to put before you, 

 and having a ten years' record of rainfall in our Reports, we thought it 

 worth entering as a note to Mr. Reeve's Summary. 



Financially, we are in a satisfactory position, having cleared off all 

 outstanding debts, and carrying over a small balance, but the Balance 

 Sheet will be before you this evening, and will, we trust, give satisfaction. 



Our Museum has had a few additions during the past year, Mr. 

 Gresley, of Overseal, having presented a most interesting collection of 

 between 30 and 40 Engravings and Maps ; and this week Mr. Charles 

 Williams, of Moseley Lodge, near Birmingham, has presented us with 

 20 Staffordshire and Warwickshire Tokens to form the nucleus of a 

 collection. On behalf of the Society we have to thank those gentlemen 

 for their kind interest. 



FRANK E. LOTT, 

 Honorary General Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



This Section numbers about twenty Members, and, as the two 

 meetings called by the Secretary were attended by 12 and 17 members 

 respectively, the Section should be able to do good field work during 

 the Summer. 



At both meetings Mr. H. T. Brown read papers: the first, on "The 

 work to be done in the district," forms a useful programme for this 

 Section during the coming Summer, and on that account we give the 

 following short resume. 



The following points of interest deserve careful study: — 



I — The basement beds of the Keuper series, of which we have a fine 



developement in the immediate neighbourhood. 

 2— The Drift Deposits of the district, more especially as tracing aconnection 

 with the supposed N.E. glacial drift (containing chalk, flints, and other 

 mezozoic rocks) and, if possible, to find beds showing the relation of 

 this drift to the more prevalent N.W. glacial drift (containing mountain 

 limestone, millstone grit and trap rocks of the same age.) 



3 — A revision of the Geological Map of the district on the 6-in. scale. 



4 — A careful study of the conditions under which the river valley has been 

 eroded, the age of that erosion and the succession of alluvial deposits. 



It was also proposed that the Section should accurately record all 

 obtainable data in connection with the water supply of Burton, and the 

 leader of the Section, Mr. C. O'Sullivan, explained how very important 

 this matter was both scientifically and practically. 



