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times be regarded as marked by only one glaciation, it would appear 

 that the Chelles-Acheul period immediately preceded the last 

 glaciation, a view in harmony with that of the latest Continental 

 writers. Professor Marr's views are largely based upon Mr. Moir's 

 discoveries in the Ipswich area, but he brought confirmatory 

 evidence from other places. The latter part of the address dealt 

 briefly with changes of sea-level during the times when man dwelt in 

 Britain, and allusion was made to certain river-diversions which 

 were brought about in the same times. The President concluded by 

 emphasizing the vagueness of some of our interpretations, and 

 urgently advocated the collection of more facts, a task which the 

 members of the Society had already largely undertaken during the 

 few years of the Society's existence. 



At the meeting of the Geological Society of London on March 24 

 the President announced that the Council had awarded the 

 Proceeds of the Daniel Pidgeon Fund available in the present year 

 to Miss Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler, who projDOses to in- 

 vestigate the Oligocene Flora of the Hordle Cliffs (Hampshire), 

 and to Laurence Dudle}^ Stamp, B.Sc, Assoc. K.C.L., F.G.S., 

 who proposes to make a comparative study of the Downtonian and 

 Gedinnian in North- Western Europe. 



We have received the following letter from a valued correspondent, 

 too late for insertion in the ^ordinary place in the Magazine, so we 

 venture to put it in our Editorial Notes instead : — 



Sir, — I believe the following couplet was written about the time 

 of the publication of Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise on Geology. 

 Could any of your readers give me the author's name ? 



All, all, was dark and drear before the Flood, 

 Till Buckland oame, and made it clenr as mud ! 



X Y Z. 



Addendum to Obituary Notice of h\ Etheridge, jun. {p. 240). 



Mr. R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural 

 History), London, S.W. 7, writes : " An excellent notice of 

 R. Etheridge, jun., appears in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, written 

 by Professor Edgeworth David, F.R.S. So far as I can trace. 

 R. E., jun., was a member of the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia, 

 and a Corresponding Member of the Royal Society of Victoria. 

 In past years he had been a Fellow of the Geological Society of 

 London, and had also been President of the Royal Physical Society 

 of Edinburgh. At the time of his death he was a member of the 

 Malacological Society of London." 



