ORDINARY MEETING.* 



Da\^id Howard, Esq., D.L., in the Chair. 



The following was elected a Member : — Professor H. M. Ami, F.K.S., 

 Canada. 



The following paper was read by Professor J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S., 

 in the absence of the author. 



THALASSOGRAPHICAL AND THALASSOLOGICAL 

 NOTES ON THE NORTH SEA. By Cav. W. P. 

 Jervis, F.G.S., A.V.I.,t Conservator of the Royal Italian 

 Industrial Museum, Turin. Being a few observations 

 suggested by Professor Hull's papers read before the 

 Victoria Institute. (With Map.) 



" Ce que nos connaissons est peu ; ce que 

 nous ignorons est infini." 



SUCH were the sublime expressions of that truly great 

 scientific man, Laplace, and after having sat foi* 

 thirty-five years at the School of Practical Mineralogy and 

 Geology, I proclaimed that I had not met with a single 

 fact which in the slightest degree clashed with inspired 

 writ, in fact, wherever there are apparent contradic- 

 tions these will disappear as our knoAvledge advances. 

 True science consists in the collection of a store of facts, in 

 classifying, weighing, and making use of them. It is 

 observations which are the foundation stones upon which 

 the structure of science is to be raised. Old Seneca truly 

 taught : Stude, non iit plus aliquid scias, sed ut melius. Though 

 perhaps bold, such is the course which I desire to follow in 

 the present paper. 



Professor Hull ably sketches in the paper he read before 

 the Victoria Institute " On the Submerged Terraces and 



* April 2nd, 1900. 



t Vide my work on the Topographical Distribution of Minerals and 

 Mineral Springs throughout Itabj. Loescher. Turin. 



