XX Vi. FIRST WINTER MEETING. 



Loss of a Distinguished Honorary Member. The PRESIDENT, 

 before the business of the meeting commenced, referred with 

 deep regret to the death of Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., of Milford-on-Sea, who was an honorary member of 

 the Club. Through his death the club, as well as the cause 

 of geology, would suffer a great loss. Mr. Clement Reid was 

 present at the excavation of the Dewlish elephant trench in 

 1914, and did very good work for the Club. (Proceedings, 

 Vol. XXXVI., pages 209, 212-218.) On the proposition of 

 Sir DANIEL MORRIS it was resolved that a message of sym- 

 pathy should be sent to Mrs. Clement Reid. 



The Membership. One new member was elected, and the 

 SECRETARY announced the nomination of four candidates 

 for election as members of the Club. 



Report of the Delegate to the Meetings of the British Associa- 

 tion. Sir DANIEL MORRIS, who, in the absence of Mr. Alfred 

 Pope, had been present as a delegate from the club, gave a 

 report of the meetings of the British Association at Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne. As bearing on Mr. Le Bore's recommendation 

 of the systematic study of zones of strata and their fossil 

 remains, Sir Daniel stated that the Bournemouth Natural 

 Science Society was about to have a series of lectures on the 

 Kimmeridge shales ; and it was hoped that these shales might 

 prove a profitable source of oil and of sulphate of ammonia, 

 notwithstanding the drawback that they contained rather 

 too large a proportion of sulphur. It was proposed that 

 the study of science should be promoted by means of popular 

 lectures ; the war having proved the immense value of all 

 branches of science. The coming of the British Association 

 to Bournemouth during the next year was calculated to 

 stimulate scientific study, and to assist the development of 

 various industries in the district ; and he hoped that the club 

 would co-operate in the endeavour to make the meetings of 

 the Association a success.* The President would be Sir 



*In consequence of the war, the British Association decided to forego 

 the meeting which was to have been held at Bournemouth this year. 



