Report of the Ratural History and Geological 
Section. 
SESSION 1902-3. 
Chairman: Mr. F, E. Lort, Assoc.R.S.M., F.I.C. 
Vice-Chairman: Mr. G. H. STORER, F.Z.S. 
Hon. Secretary: Mr. HAROLD WILLIAMS, 
HIS Section was inaugurated in October, 1902, and the mem- 
bers of the Society having been circularised as to the objects 
of same, the movement was keenly taken up, there being a member- 
ship of 62 at the end of the season. During the Winter the follow- 
ing papers were read, and for the first two seasons the papers are 
purposely of an elementary nature, arranged as far as possible to 
show the relation between the two sciences, Zoology and Geology. 
The exhibition of specimens and discussions by members were made 
special features of the meetings, at which all were asked to help. 
The summer excursions or rambles greatly added to the interest- 
aroused by the papers read. 
The Chairman, in his inaugural paper, pointed out how the all- 
embracing theory of evolution linked together the science of Geology 
with other sciences, more especially Zoology and Botany ; the fossil 
forms of byegone animals and vegetable life being comparable with 
those of the present day enabled the student to trace the develop- 
ment of the higher forms of life from the lower, far back almost to 
the dawn of life in the earliest Geological records, and so rendered 
a joint study of these sciences more especially interesting and 
- desirable, 
