measurements and photographs are postponed, to be dealt with when his inquiries 

 in the district are completed. Dr. March has also forwarded a sketch and 

 photographs of the famous Giant of Cerne Abbas." 



Dr. March, who represented the Club at the Bristol Meeting of the British 

 Association in September, 1898, then read the following report : 



Having attended the sixty-eighth meeting of the British Association, which took 

 place last year at Bristol, as a substitute for your Secretary, who was unable to 

 be present, perhaps it is now incumbent upon me to make a brief statement. 



The delegates of societies mustered in full force, and their chief concern was 

 about the wasting of our shores. Our associate, Mr. Vaughan Cornish, who had 

 investigated the grading of the shingle on the Chesil Bank, and had read 

 important papers to the Eoyal Geographical Society on banks, beaches, and 

 sand-dunes in general, joined in the discussion, together with Mr. W. H. 

 Wheeler, of Boston, who afterwards made a communication to the Geological 

 Section on the action of waves and tides on the movement of material on the sea 

 coasts. It is needless to say that these and other authorities were not in full 

 agreement on all points; but the opinion was unanimous that the Admiralty 

 would do good service to the country by obtaining from the coastguards specimens 

 of sand and shingle and other products of erosion, together with observations on 

 the rate and degree of coastal changes. The Section of Zoology was much 

 occupied with the fundamental questions of heredity and variability, and 

 Mr. Galtou's theories, supported as they were by Professor Pearson, found 

 ready acceptance. Our Treasurer would have been delighted with a paper by 

 Mr. Pocpck on "Musical Organs in Spiders." 



Of the Geological Section our associate, Mr. Hudleston, was president. In 

 his address he drew special attention to Mr. Buckland's correlation of the Cottes- 

 wold deposits with those of this county, and he shared that observer's opinions 

 first, that Duiidry Hill is an outlier of the inferior oolite of Dorset, since it has 

 closer lithological and palseontological affinities to the beds of Sherbome than to 

 those of the Cotteswolds, and second, that in the Inferior Oolite period, the land 

 between Sherbome and Dundry was occupied by a continuous sea. 



Here is a map, prepared in Bristol and presented to members of the British 

 Association, which gives " reputed glacial scratches" near Tauiitou. A collec- 

 tion of geological photographs and slides will be lent by Professor W. W. Watts, 

 to the Secretary of any affiliated Society. In the Anthropological Section it was 

 remarked that, if truth is stranger than fiction, De Eougemont is stranger than 

 either. On the occasion of his performance, the depressing cellar where Section 

 H. met was changed for the exhilarating atmosphere of the Prince's Theatre, which 

 was filled from floor to ceiling. His paper has not been fully published, but I 

 possess a copy of it, which I shall be glad to lend to anyone who will undertake 

 to return it. 



A party of the Association visited Glastoiibury, where Mr. Bulleid, who had 

 prepared a Keport of the excavations carried on during the preceding year, 

 explained, us he had previously done to us, the wonders of the Lake Dwellings. 



