ORDINARY MEETING.* 
CapTAIN HEATH, R.N., IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following paper was read by the Author :— 
THE SUB-OCEANIC DEPRESSION KNOWN AS 
LA FOSSE DE. CAP BRETON, AND THE 
ADJACENT RIVER VALLEYS OF FRANCE 
AND SPAIN. By Professor J. LocAn Losey, F.G.S., 
F.R.G.S. 
(Read Monday, January 1, 1900.) 
© haa sub-oceanic teatures off the western coasts of Europe 
: have been prominently brought before the Members of 
the Victoria Institute by Professor Hull, in highly interesting 
and well illustrated papers, while the importance of the facts 
and the gravity of the conclusions that may be drawn from 
them have been recognized by the Royal Geographical Society 
and the British Association, before which bodies discussions 
of the subject have taken place. Communications on this 
important investigation have also been published in the 
Geological Magazine, from several geological authorities, 
including an important contribution to the discussion of the 
question in a paper on “The Eastern Margin of the North 
Atlantic Basin,” by Mr. W. H. Hudleston, F.R.S., published 
in the Geological Magazine for March and April, 1899, which 
is accompanied by.a bathygraphical map extending through 
fifty-five degrees of latitude. 
* Monday, January Ist, 1900. 
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