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I am proposing to make further experiments with 

 various modifications, which at some future opportunity 

 I hope to be permitted to lay before the Geological 

 Society. 



Mr. Hudleston, in course of some discussion 

 which followed, drew attention to a particular 

 feature shown in the models, which, as he under- 

 stood the author, had been mentioned in his 

 explanation. This was the more acute accentua- 

 tion of the foldings in the lower part of the 

 series. So far as his (the speaker's) experience 

 extended, this peculiarity might be noticed in 

 certain mountain-ranges. He proceeded to give 

 instances in point. But the reader whom the 

 subject interests would do well to look up the 

 number above quoted of the journal. 



On May 22, Lord Avebury was the guest of 

 Sir Oliver Lodge, giving an address to the under- 

 graduates of Birmingham, who had elected him 

 their first Warden, and a few days later he 

 delivered an address to the Churchmen's Union, 

 which brought him in a mass of correspondence, 

 from both laymen and churchmen of various 

 views. The address is published in his Essays 

 and Addresses. It is rather curious to find him, 

 who was at one time regarded with such keen 

 suspicion by the orthodox on account of his 

 sympathy with the scientific views of Darwin 

 and Huxley, now credited with " saying what 

 needs to be said and preparing the way for the 

 development of the Church of England," as one 

 of his commentators has it. In those earlier 

 days it was difficult for people to believe that 

 one who held the views of Darwin could harmonise 



