ORDINARY MEETING.* 

 Captain Heath, in the Chair. 



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

 following election took place : — 



Associate : — Ivo F. C. Carr Gregg, Esq. 



The following paper was then read by the author : — 



THE PHYSICAL HISTORY OF THE NORWEGIAN 

 FJORDS. By Professor Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. (Secretary). (With Map.) 



CONTENTS. 

 Part I. 



iNTBODUCTORy. 



2. Depths of the Fjords below the surface of the sea. 



3. Age of the rocks bordering the Fjords. 



Part II. 



1. Original condition of formation. 



2. First and earliest stage of formation. Archaean continent. 



3. Second stage. Silurian depression. 



4. Third stage. Post Silurian elevation. 



5. Unequal depths of the Fjords. 



6. The Admiralty Charts with soundings : Isobathic contours. 



Part III. 



1. Cause of the rapid shallowing of the Fjords seawards. 



2. Former submergence : Formation of marine terraces in Norway. 



* Monday, February 17th, 1902. 



