ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.* 

 Rev. F. a. Walker, D.D., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meethig were read and confirmed. 

 The following elections were announced : — 



The Secretary (Prof. E. Hull, M.A., LL.D.) read the following on 

 the " Submerged River-Valleys of the Atlantic " : — 



A COMMUNICATION ON THE 



SUBMERGED BIVER-VALLEYS OF THE ATLANTIC. 

 By the Secretary, Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Those members who have taken an interest in the investigations 

 I have had the honour to lay before the Institute from time to 

 time on the above subject, will probably be pleased to learn that 

 I have recently had two confirmatory statements regarding my 

 conclusions drawn from distinct and independent sources. It 

 will be recollected that from the plan of tracing the isobathic 

 contours (or lines of equal depth) on the Admiralty charts, I was 

 able to show that most of the river-valleys opening on the North 

 Atlantic Ocean from the coasts of the British Isles and Western 

 Europe — and, indeed, of Africa as far as the Congo, after 

 traversing the Continental Platform and descending to great 

 depths, opened out on the floor of the abyssal ocean at a general 

 depth of 1,200 fathoms (or 7,200 feet) below the surface of the 

 ocean ; and from this it was inferred that at the time when these 



* Monday, May 12th, 1902. 



