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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Wednesday, March 17th, a conversazione was held at the 

 President's house. The Secretary exhibited a collection of 

 Ranimculacece; Mr. J. Fitness, a very beautiful collection of 

 drawings of microscopic objects; the Rev. C. L. Acland, 

 some Gault Fossils from East Wear Bay. Microscopes were 

 on the table as usual. The President read an interesting 

 paper on the "Mechanism of the Human Voice" and this 

 was followed by another on 



THE LATE LANDSLIP ON THE WARREN. 

 By the Rev. C. L. Acland. 



By permission of the President I am going to say a few 

 words on the subject of a great landslip on the Warren, 

 which occurred on the night of Thursday, the 25 th of 

 Ji'ebruary. Of course you all know that the Warren itself is one 

 great landslip, and that one part or other of its surface is 

 always on the move, so that an attentive observer finds some- 

 thing fresh at almost every visit. I hope all of you have 

 seen or will see this latest slip for yourselves, and I also hope 

 that after I have said what I have to say, or during my 

 remarks if you like better, any of you will put in statements 

 or opinions of your own. 



The beginning of the slip is a little this side of the Long 

 Pond, and its further end is some quarter of a mile or so 

 from the Coast Guard houses. The whole slip is very regular 

 in shape and dimensions, and when you stand at the far end 

 of it, and look back towards Folkestone, you cannot help 

 being struck by the magnitude of the dislocation, nor can 

 you help speculating as to what could' have caused it. A 

 long narrow strip of land, about half-a-mile in length and 

 from 50 to 70 yards wide, has sunk down, so quietly and 

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