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io his hearers a number of hints collected during his recent travels. 

 Mr, B. H. Woodward, F.G.S., described " The Western Australian 

 Museum and Art Gallery, Perth," of which he is the energetic 

 €urator. Mr. Jeffrey Bell advocated more attention to " Good Form 

 in Natural History Museums," especially as regards harmonious 

 arrangement of cases, colour of background, colour of labels, and 

 the use of technical terms, which, in his opinion, should be avoided 

 in exhibits intended for the public. Professor J. Arthur Thomson 

 urged the need for a faunistic museum for the North of Scotland. 

 Mr. S. S. Buckman, in a paper entitled " Neglect of Opportunities," 

 indicated certain methods by which the relation of biological and 

 geological science to human ideas and needs might be better brought 

 out in the public galleries of natural history museums ; in particular 

 he showed how details of palgeontology might be relieved of their 

 dryness by being paralleled with the facts of man's individual and 

 social life. These and the other papers which were read will appear 

 in extenso and adequatelj'^ illustrated in the third volume of The 

 Museums Journal. 



It was unfortunate that the week chosen for the meeting should 

 have been that when the University authorities were inevitably 

 engaged with the Degree examinations. In spite of much incon- 

 venience to themselves, they kindly admitted members to their 

 pictui'e galleries and scientific museums. The Zoological Collection 

 was described by Professor J. A. Thomson, and the Geological 

 Collection by his assistant, Mr. A. Willard Gibb, M.A. The latter 

 was arranged by the late Professor H. Alleyne Nicholson, LL.D., 

 M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., to whose memory a medallion portrait with 

 a decorative design in selected Palasozoic fossils, accompanied by 

 a suitable inscription worked out as a repousse brass tablet, has been 

 placed on the wall of the College Chapel, designed by Miss Alice B. 

 Woodward, and executed by Messrs. Ramsden & Carr of London. 



The next annual meeting is to be held in Norwich under the 

 presidency of Dr. S. F. Harmer, F.R.S. 



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THE BUDLEIGH PEBBLES— MARINE OE FLUVIATILE? 

 SiK, — In his paper on the Triassic Pebbles of South Devon, 

 Mr. Shrubsole makes a most important statement as to the action of 

 waves on the Budleigh Salterton pebbles. He asserts that " the 

 result [of wave action] is to produce a new deposit altogether, in 

 which the pebbles are usually of a totally different shape. They 

 now become as a rule symmetrical, and lose all trace of angularity " 

 (Q.J.G.S., vol. lix, p. 316). This is diametrically opposed to the 

 following categorical statement of the late Mr. W. Pengelly : " It is 

 worthy of remark, that the pebbles which have performed the 

 modern journey from Budleigh Salterton to Pinney Bay, and those 

 which remain in the bed in the former locality, are identical in form. 

 Re-denudation and a transportation by waves over eighteen miles of 



