ORDINARY MEETING* 

 Commander G. P. Heath, R.N., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 following Election was announced : — 



Associate : — J. E. Swanston, Esq., M.A., United States. 



The following paper was then read by the author : — 



FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS REGARDING THE 

 SUBMERGED TERRACES AND RIVER VAL- 

 LEYS BORDERING THE BRITISH ISLES. 

 By Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., and G.S. 



{With chart.) 



I, Introductory. — The researclies of previous investigators 

 have had the result of showing that the platform on which 

 are planted the British Isles and adjoining parts of the 

 European continent was formerly connected by land with Ice- 

 land through the Shetland and Faeroe Islands, and this again 

 with Greenland. This former connection is placed beyond 

 doubt by the character of the fauna and flora. Dr. Wallace 

 includes Iceland in his Palsearctic region which embraces the 

 British Isles and Europe,! and as Professor Newton has 

 shown — all the land mammalia, with only three exceptions, 

 are European. The exceptions are those of Arctic habitats — 

 the polar bear, the Arctic fox, and a mouse {Mus Islandicus). 

 Amongst the birds — the peculiar species— are allied to 

 those of Europe and the Faeroes. The botany and ento- 



* 2nd May, 1898. The importance of a full consideration 

 of the points brought out in Dr. Hull's paper, has been 

 held to require its early insertion in the Journal. 



t Geographical Distribution of Animals. 



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