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F.R.C.S., LL.D., P.R.S.. Sir C. A. Gordon, K.C.B., the Ven. 

 R. Thornton, D.D., Arclicleacon of Middlesex, aud others. 

 " On the sub-oceanic terraces and river valleys off the coast 

 of Western Enrope." by Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 with remarks by Professor Etheridge, F.R.S., General 

 McMahon, F.R.S., Professor T. McK. Hughes, F.R.S., and 

 Cavaliere W. P. Jervis, Keeper of the Royal Museum, Turin. 

 Professor Hull's investigations are of great importance not 

 only for the interest of the results arrived at, but still more 

 from their bearing upon other vexed questions in geology 

 and physical geography, such as the causes of the vicissitudes 

 of climate in past ages, and the distribution of land and 

 marine fauna and flora in Upper Tertiary and recent times. 



To all who have taken a part in the work done the best 

 thanks of the Members and Associates are due. By their 

 aid the Transactions of the Institute possess a unique value, 

 containing as they do, on each subject dealt with, the opinions, 

 not of one competent investigator, but of many of those 

 whose studies have lain in the direction of the matter taken 

 up. 



FEANCIS W. H. PETEIE, Cai>t., 



Hon. Sec. and Editor, 

 The AuCunni, 1899. 



