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Geology may not be lost.’ The records in the Transactions of Section E 
show that the study was maintained.” 
On January 16, 1899, while Geology was still amalgamated with Zoology, 
Dr. Frederick William Bennett, M.D., gave an account of ‘ The Rocks 
of Charnwood Forest.’ It was the first time in which his name appears 
in the Transactions. The opening is thus recorded: ‘ During 1898 
I studied the detailed descriptions of the Charnwood Forest Rocks given 
by Mr. Hill and Professor Bonney and obtained a large number of 
specimens of the rocks. I have arranged about 300 of these on a rough 
map of the district so that comparison can easily be made between the 
rocks of different parts.’ 
In 1899 those who were especially interested in geology petitioned 
the Council ‘ in view of the increased interest in the subject to reconstitute 
Section C.’ This was done. The reconstituted Section had for its 
chairman, Hermann Alfred Roechling, C.E., F.G.S., whose professional 
address was ‘ The Office of the Borough Surveyor,’ and for its vice- 
chairman, Mr. Louis B. M. Hodges, the Headmaster of St. Martin’s 
School. Mr. C. Fox Strangways, of H.M. Geological Survey, was a most 
valuable member. The first paper on May 4, 1899, was by Mr. Hodges— 
‘ Suggestions for working a Geological Section.’ In the first session there 
were seventy-nine members. ‘There were twelve evening meetings, in- 
cluding a conversazione, and six summer excursions, four of which were 
conducted by Mr. C. Fox Strangways. The activity of the Section was 
suspended during the war. It was very active before the war, and it has 
been so since the war, under the leadership of the late Dr. F. W. Bennett, 
who devoted the bulk of his spare time to the study of, and possibly 
possessed an unrivalled knowledge of, the rocks of the Charnwood Forest. 
List OF GEOLOGICAL PAPERS. 
Mr. H. H. Gregory, M.A., the Honorary Secretary of the Geological 
Section, has supplied the following bibliography of the works of members 
of the Section. He has pointed out that it does not contain many valu- 
able addresses, especially those by leaders of excursions, of which there 
are scanty records in the Minutes of the Section. ' 
Bibliography of the Works of Members of the Geological Section 
of the Literary and Philosophical Society. 
1. PLaNnt, J.: ‘ Are the (Slate) Rocks of Charnwood Forest Laurentian ?’ 
Geol. Mag., 1865. 
2. PLANT, J.: ‘ Geology of Leicestershire,’ Leicester Lit. & Phil. Soc., 
1874-75. 
7 At this period the Transactions were printed at great length. ‘ A Contribu- 
tion to the History of the Geology of the Borough of Leicester,’ by Montagu 
Browne, F.G.S., F.Z.S., Curator of the Museum and Art Gallery, read before 
Section E, begins with p. 123, and ends, with half a page of thanks to the many 
who had helped him and to the Society for the publication, on p. 240. There 
are illustrations and diagrams. 
