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GanUrhun/j May 2,2, Y86Y. 

 Reprinted from "Kentish Gazette," May 28, 1867. 



The third of the monthly afternoon meetings of this 

 Society was held in the Lecture Room of the Philosophical 

 Institution on Wednesday last. Colonel Cox, the president 

 of the Society occupied the chair ; and the attendance 

 was pretty numerous. The subject for illustration was 

 " Siluria," by the Rev. Dr. Mitchinson, of the King's 

 School, Canterbury, and it was handled with the reverend 

 gentleman's usual ability. After disclaiming all inten- 

 tion of reading an elaborate paper on the subject, Dr. 

 Mitchinson said his intention was only to give an extempore 

 address or conversation on the subject of Siluria, not the 

 Silurian system, which would open a much wider field than 

 he could possibly hope to traverse in the time during which 

 he was to speak. The Silurian system embraced so wide 

 and varied a field, that anything like a description of it 

 would require a treatise rather than a lecture to do it justice. 

 He had chosen the title Siluria, as the theme of his address, 

 because it was always more interesting to be told the per- 

 sonal experiences of an eye-witness, and he had himself 

 been over theground in the course of 1866. It might ap- 

 pear to some to be a novelty to talk about the geology of 

 other parts of the country, while the object of their Society 



