RDINAR Y MEETING.* 



Sir Charles A. Gordon, K.C.B, Q.H.P., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and the following elections 

 took place : — 



Member : — Professor J. Zimmerman, M.A., D.D., United States. 



Associates : — Eev. T. B. Angell, D.D., United States ; D. Hai-lowe, 

 Esq., United States. 



The following paper was read by the Author : — 



ON THE SUB-OCEANIC TERRACES AND RIVER 

 VALLEYS OFE THE COAST OF WESTERN 

 EUROPE. By Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. (Late Director of the Geological Survey 

 of Ireland.) (With three Plates.) 



Part I. Introductory. 



IT has been recognised for many years past that the 

 British Isles and adjoining parts of the European 

 continent rise from a submarine j)Iatform — generally known 

 as " the 100-fathom platform " — and that this terminates 

 along a declivity more or less steep, descending into very 

 deep water forming the abyssal region of the Atlantic. As 

 far back as 1849, the late Mr. Godwin- Austen described the 

 limits and composition of this platform over its western area 

 off the coast of the British Isles, and. showed that it was 

 covered by shingle containing littoral shells, sometimes 

 entire, including Ratella vulgata, Turbo, Littorina, etc., far out 

 to sea and at depths of 80 to 100 fathoms ; arriving at the 

 conclusion that they at one time formed successive margins 

 of the Atlantic during a period of upheaval, or before the 

 present submergence. Such shingle beaches are well 



* 17th April, 1899. The importance of full consideration 

 by the scientific world of the points brought out in Dr. 

 Hull's paper, has been held to require its early insertion 

 in the Journal. 



