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Denmarx.—British system mainly, but Metric system contem- 
plated. 
Unirep Srares or Amerrica.—-British system mainly, but Metric 
system contemplated. : 
While as regards 
Great Brittan.—We continue to ask: Is the Metric system 
contemplated ? Are we going to be strong enough to make 
the Government undertake this great reform ? 

THE DOLOMITES. 
(Wirs Lantern Views.) 
By JOSEPH COLLIER, F.R.G.S. (Member of the Alpine Club). 
17th November, 1902. 
The Lecturer spoke for nearly an hour and a half on the 
« Dolomites,” from the climber’s point of view. There were, he 
said, Dolomites in Derbyshire, and the Houses of Parliament were 
built of Dolomite (a rock. composed of magnesia, stone). 
English scenery was, however, not in any way dominated by the 
Dolomite rock itself; but in the districts of the Dolomites—the 
Tyrol—the whole country seemed to be made up of nothing 
else. They were in the western portion of the Austrian Empire, 
pounded on the north by Bavaria, south by Italy, on the west 
by Switzerland, and on the east they went near Vienna. The 
Dolomite district was practically a square of about sixty miles. 
Beginning with Innsbruck, the capital of the Tyrol, the lecturer 
showed typical Tyrolese villages, and characters in the national 
