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GEOLOGY AT THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
J. LOMAS, F.G.S., 
Birkenhead. 
Tue shadow of the forthcoming Centenary of the Geological 
Society was cast over the proceedings of Section C at Leicester. 
Many distinguished foreigners, and not a few British geologists, 
were prevented from attending the meeting, owing to their 
inability to spare time for both functions. Nevertheless, the 
proceedings were full and interesting. Local papers were both 
numerous and important, reflecting the vigour and enthusiasm 
of the local workers. 
Mr. Fox Strangways and Prof. Watts described the country 
about Leicester. Drs. Bennett and Stracey, who followed with 
papers on the Charnwood Rocks, did not see eye to eye with 
the Professor, and the conflicting views were discussed both in 
the meetings and in the field, during the admirable series of 
excursions which were held. Although the combatants remained 
unconvinced, a happy ending is promised by the appointment of 
a Committee to conduct analyses of the rocks and report at the 
next meeting. 
Such is the interest now shown in Triassic problems, that a 
whole day proved insufficient to discuss the papers offered on this 
formation. Mr. H. T. Ferrar opened most appropriately with 
an account of the features shown in existing deserts. Mr. T. O. 
Bosworth applied these with great force and insight to explain 
the puzzling characters of the local Trias. At Croft, during 
one of the excursions led by Mr. Fox Strangways, we were 
enabled to see for ourselves the igneous rocks denuded of 
Marl, with wind etching, desert screes, desert crusts, and many 
other characteristic desert features. Dr. Cullis announced the 
discovery of dolomite crystals in the Keuper Marls of the South 
West of England, and he attributed their origin to precipitation 
from the waters of an inland sea. That similar crystals may be 
formed under other conditions was shown by their occurrence 
in marine sands. 
_ Messrs. Bolton and Waterfall gave a description of the great 
masses of Strontia found at Abbot’s Leigh, near Bristol. 
In presenting the fifth report on the Fauna and Flora of the 
Trias, the Secretary communicated an important paper by Dr. 
A. Smith Woodward on ‘A Mandible of Labyrinthodon leptog- 
nathus recently obtained from Cubbington Heath, near 
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