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Alto the following reports were presented: 

 "Report of the Committee on the Teaching of Sci- 

 ence to Elementary School*," by in. .Mm II. Olad- 

 Mone; -Report of the Committee on Quantitative 

 Analysis b/Meana of Electrolysis" by Dr. C 

 Report of the Committee appointed to prepare a 

 New^eriea of Wave-length Table* of the Spectra of 



IKMt Of 



the Committee on the Preparation of Pure Haloids' 1 ; 

 and the Report of the Committee on the Bibliogra- 

 phy of Speotroaoopy." 



C. Oeoloffv.Thi* section was presided over 



.mm Whitaker.whoisconn.. t.,1 with tin- 

 Geological Survey of Great Hriuun. He chose 

 M the subject of his address " Underground in 

 Suffolk and its Borders." 



The object of this addreaa ia to carry you below 

 the iturface, and to point out how much our knowl- 

 edge of the geology of the country in which %\ 

 has been advanced by engineer* and others ii. 

 aearch for water. This information haa accumulated 

 ainoe 1851, for of the 476 Suffolk wells, of which an 

 account with some geologic information has been 

 pubUthed. only 68 were noticed before that year. Of 

 the Drift it may be said that it is only from the wells 

 that we can feel] it* thickness over most of this pla- 

 teau. Sometimes the sections seem to point to the 

 existence of channels filled with Drift, such as are 

 also found in Ersex and in Norfolk. Less informa- 

 tion is available of the Crag, as it is not t*<> 



" ; Htill the evidences show it to be far thicker 



tfa 



to the dis- 



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IV ". MB ' to "- i- ifttioa 

 of arm and helium in the periodic system of 

 ehtsajpal elements, he agreed with Prof. Ramsay 

 that tt was still U prrmat ure to speculate and 

 mid not he decided until it was certain that 



,' hir Anhor Clowes; -The Action of 

 vf in Presence 



Ojlh. Ifth U* ttedoo mat with the section 

 7 to dtesi the relation of 



f^7 to tesi the relation of agriculture 

 l Mill Hi ftftd Pro! MeldoU pwridedl orer the 

 lotetMeUng. at which R. WSSgton r^a>l a 



was supposed. Below the Crag there is a great 

 gap in the geologic series, and we reach some of the 

 lower Tertian formations. The important evidence 

 obtained is showing the great underground extent of 

 the older Tertiary beds. The chalk is read 

 many wells, yet. owing to its great thickness, but lit- 

 tle information is available about it. No case is on 

 record of the chalk being pierced from top to 

 in Suffolk. From the base of the chalk we pass out 

 of the region of facts into the realm of speculation. 

 To the Question, " What rockH underlie th< 

 ceous beds at great depths ?" ponsidi-ration i- 

 From the fact that there is no area of old m<-ks at the 

 surface in our island south of the Fort!) in whi.-h 

 coal measures are not a constituent formation, and on 

 the principle of reasoning from the known to tin- un- 

 known. H-O why we should expect anything 

 but a like occurrence of coal measures in del 

 basins in our vast underground tract of old rocks. 

 The question of finding and of working coal in va- 

 rious parts of southeastern Kn/lan-l i- not met 

 local interest; it is of national imt>ortnee. 

 time must come when the coal fields that*, 

 worked for years will be more or less exhausted, and 

 we ought certainly to look out ahead for others, so as 

 to be ready for the lessening yield of thr, 

 served us so well. It is on our coal that our national 

 prosperity depends, and, as far as we can see, will 

 Offend. Let us not neglect any of the bounteous 

 gifts of Nature, but let us show rather that we are 

 ready to search for the treasures that may i>< hidden 

 under our feet, and the ti m i will result 

 in the common welfare of our native land. 



Appended to the address was a list of the 

 i-apers on the old r*-k- underground in 

 southeastern England since 1889. wh.-i, tl 

 ject was treated of in the memoir on tin "Geol- 

 ogy of London,* eta 



'k' the papers read before the section 

 were the follow i Itecent Co., 



atSouthwold and Covehithe," by John Spiller; 

 "On the Southern Character of the Molfuscan 

 Fauna of the Coralline Crag, tested by an 

 Analysis of its Characteristic and Abundant 

 by P. W. Harraer. On Sept. 15 this 



