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Mr. WARD said that the greatest height was rather more than 
2,500 feet. 
Mr. Scott thought they must indicate how well pleased they 
were to again see Mr. Ward. It was refreshing to have that gen- 
tleman away from his mountains, although at the same time 
tantalising to have to stop in Brighton while he was ranging 
among the hills. Mr. Ward had ingeniously tried to make them 
believe that a great deal of the information he had laid before 
them was old, that much of it had been brought forward else- 
where. That might be true, but they must recollect the great 
share Mr. Ward himself had in bringing it forward. What he had 
told them that night truly showed the immense importance of the 
Geological Survey. It gave a good idea of the work the members of it 
were carrying out, and the part Mr. Ward was taking in it. When 
they considered the extraordinary geological changes going on upon 
the earth’s surface, the reconstruction, in fact, of the globe, by the trans- 
portation and deposition in ice of dirt and boulders, they were over-~ 
whelmed.. A wide subject rose out of the lecture that night, namely, 
‘what brought about these glacial epochs? but that they might at a 
future time consider. They could not, however, separate without again 
manifesting their gratitude to Mr. Ward for his excellent lecture. 
Mr. WARD, in returning thanks, remarked that he should scarcely 
be worthy of his salt, if he could go over those mountains in the prose- 
cuion of his geological work and not see the things he had seen. 
Therefore, he did not think that any credit was due to him for making 
the observations he had ; but that he would have deserved a deal of 
blame if he had not made them. 
JANUARY 23RD. 
SPECIAL MEETING.—CHANGE OF ROOM. 
The President, Mr. J. E. HASELWOOD, explained the object of the 
meeting—to receive and consider a recommendation of the Committee 
to the effect, that the offer of the Town Council of Brighton to the 
Society, of the use of the Curators Room, at the New Free Library, 
