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In the absence of the President, the Rev. P. B. Brodie, 
Vice-President, occupied the chair. The Chairman, after 
a few introductory remarks, read the President’s address, 
which was entirely devoted to Archeology, relating chiefly 
to the Swiss Lake Dwellings. A paper on ‘ Modern 
Science and the Bible,” was then read by the Rev. P. B. 
Brodie, M.A., F.G.S., (Vice-President.) 
The Vice-President having made a few brief remarks, 
next called upon Mr. Parker, who gave a viva voce account 
of the water supply of ancient Rome, which was illustrated 
by drawings and photographs. 
W. H. Corrtenp, Hsq., (Fellow of Pembroke College, 
Oxford), F.G.S., then read a paper on “the volcanic 
hills forming the chain of the Puys, near Clermont, 
Auvergne, central France.” : 
This was followed by a short paper on a question of 
Natural History, by the Rey. W. Johnson. 
The first summer meeting of the season was held at 
Rugby, on May the 22nd, which was very well attended. 
The school museum was first visited, which contains a 
well-arranged and creditable loeal collection of fossils and 
other things of great service in the Natural History 
lectures, which now (and very properly) form part of the 
eurriculum of the school. 
The party then went to Mr. Bloxam’s, the well-known 
Antiquary, where a small, but interesting and valuable 
-collection of antiquities was exhibited. ‘The various Lias 
quarries in the neighbourhood were next visited, in the 
following order, the ‘lima beds’ at New Bilton, thence to 
Holbrook, where the club were hospitably entertained at 
luncheon by Mr. Caldecott. 
