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EXCURSION NOTES: 

 CHIEFLY ON RIVER FEATURES, 



BY 

 S. S. BUCKMAN. F.G.S. 



The programmes of the excursions undertaken in the 

 summer of 1899 contained various notes and illustrations 

 of the points for special study during the respective out- 

 ings ; and it seems desirable that these notes should find 

 a place in the Proceedings. For this purpose they have 

 been collected to form a paper, and in some cases further 

 illustrations both in the way of additional figures and of 

 explanatory text have been introduced. These illustra- 

 tions, it is hoped, will more fully elucidate the necessarily 

 brief notes given in the respective programmes. The 

 different excursions may be taken in order, the notes 

 of the programmes being given first, with such verbal 

 emendations as may be necessary, and further remarks 

 being added as occasion requires. 



The Coln Valley Meeting 



The object of the day's excursion was to study the 

 features of rivers and their valleys. 



The ideas governing the investigations are that on the 

 first initiation of the present drainage the streams flowed 

 with the dip, from the Welsh mountains towards the south- 

 east of England (Fig. l) ; that these streams were after- 

 wards in many cases intercepted by later-developed streams 



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