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and detailed description given by the lecturer, as the slides 
passed slowly in panoramic order through the lantern, of the 
exquisite ranges of snow-clad peaks, ranging from 20,000 to 
28,000 ft. above sea-level, the awful avalanches, the wonderful 
virgin forest covering the lower slopes, and passes with their 
mountain torrents wearing their way through them as if anxious 
to arrive at the lower lands, was most fascinating, and made 
us almost feel we were part of his touring party. Those 
members who failed to attend lost more than they were aware 
of. Prof. Garwood was accompanied on the tour by Signor 
Sella, whose photos cannot be too highly praised. 
At the monthly meeting on April 13th, Professor Haddon, 
M.A., B.Se., gave the members a most interesting paper entitled 
‘‘Pagan Survivals in Modern Britain,” illustrated by a fine 
series of lantern slides. Owing to what Professor Haddon 
termed the glaciation of England and parts of Scotland by the 
Anglo-Saxon race, with more prosaic and less imaginative 
natures than the Celtic peoples, it is necessary to look for the 
relics of Paganism in the folk-lore or learning of the lower 
order of people of the British Isles, and chiefly in Ireland. 
There are different grades of mankind, which for the purposes 
of his lecture Professor Haddon termed savages, barbarians, 
and civilized; and amongst the last the lowest orders, at least 
in primitive places, are analogous to the savages, and are 
termed ‘folk.’ Many of the customs still found prevalent 
among them and their lore or learning are simply survivals of 
old pagan customs and legends which, though Christian meanings 
have in some instances become associated with them, naturally 
retain much of their original forms and significations. This is 
owing to the fact that, whereas Christianity has existed nearly 
two thousand years, the much longer prevalence of pagan cus- 
toms, prior to the introduction of Christianity and under forms 
of comparatively high civilization, has necessarily influenced 
the minds and characters of the people. Examples in many 
forms and from many countries rendered the subject very in- 
teresting ; and the lecture was well illustrated by lantern slides. 
At the ordinary monthly meeting held on May 21st, before 
the paper of the evening was read, the Secretary stated that a 
petition, signed by over two hundred burgesses of Croydon, 
chiefly in the Norwood Ward, had been presented to the Croydon 
Town Council, requesting them to consider the Club’s suggestions 
for making a Public Museum in the mansion standing in the 
newly purchased estate at Grange Wood, and that following the . 
presentation of the petition a deputation, consisting of the 
President, Mr. Whitaker, Dr. Parsons, Dr. Hobson, and Mr. 
