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is no more any Swiss geology ! Anyhow it will 

 a good deal alter the map. No fossils had 

 previously been found in these rocks. I cannot 

 doubt that they are Nummulites, and in that case 

 we must either bring the rocks up from Triassic 

 to Eocene or else carry Nummulites down from 

 Eocene to Triassic. Anyhow it is so interesting 

 that we are going to give up to-morrow's plan 

 and go back to Murren." 



Accordingly, on Saturday he writes : " Beauti- 

 ful day. Some of us went back to Murren where 

 we had a superb view and found lots of Nummu- 

 lites in the place I lit on yesterday. There can be 

 no doubt about it." 



Three weeks later they arrived, on their 

 homeward way, at Paris, where on the Monday he 

 attended " two meetings of the Greek Committee, 

 one at 10.30 and one at 5. Came to satisfactory 

 agreement." Sir John was first President of the 

 new International Sociological Institute, of which 

 the first meeting was held the same day, in Paris. 

 It was by way of a little interlude between the 

 two financial meetings that he presided, and gave 

 his inaugural address in French, at this first 

 meeting of the Institute. He had a crowded 

 audience. The address was very well received, 

 both by the hearers and in the Press. 



The conclusion of the meeting, which con- 

 tinued over several days after the Lubbock party 

 had left Paris, was no less successful than its 

 commencement, as Sir John is informed in the 

 following letter from Dr. R. Worms, 



