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settlement where marked concentrations of people are found along the main 
roads. It isa hilly dairy farming and market gardening region. 
The remainder of Essex is divided more obviously on a soil basis into : 
(i) A north-western boulder clay plateau where a declining popula- 
tion still carries on cereal cultivation ; 
(ii) An eastern estuarine lowland which is a grass-covered London 
clay region where population is also decreasing ; and 
(iii) An area of increasing population extending along the main roads 
from Chelmsford to Ipswich, Harwich and Clacton, which is 
essentially a region of fruit, truck and mixed farming developed 
on a variety of light or medium soils. 
Mr. E. C. Witiatts.—The land use regions of the London Basin (12.15). 
This paper gives a summary of the land utilisation in the centre of the 
London Basin, the area covered by the four 1-inch sheets surrounding 
London. An analysis of the major categories is shown in the form of 
abstracts from the land utilisation maps. 
It has been found possible to distinguish the following ‘ rural’ land use 
regions: Chilterns, Thames Valley, Cookham Loam Plateau, Burnham 
Wooded Plateau, Colne Valley, Vale of St. Albans, South Herts Hay Belt, 
Middlesex Clay Plain, Lea Valley, Epping Forest, Essex Mixed Farming 
Area, Brentwood Forest and Hay Belt, Romford Market-gardening Plain, 
Bulphan Clay Plain, Thames Market-gardening Plain, Windsor Forest 
and Grass Belt, Bagshot Heath and Pine Forest Plateau, Blackwater Valley, 
North Surrey Clay Plain, Hayes-Chiselhurst Heath-Wood Belt, Kent 
Market-gardening Plain, Thames Marshes, North Downs, Rough: Scarp 
Belt, Fertile Chalk Slope. 
The urban growth is treated as a feature which is superimposed on these 
natural regions : it is a growth which has almost completely masked certain 
areas. 
The character of each region is separately considered and is illustrated 
by specimens of the 6-inch Land Utilisation Field Sheets. 
AFTERNOON. 
Prof. E. G. R. TayLor.—‘ England’s blame if not her shame’ ; or the 
seventeenth-century pamphleteer on country, town and nation planning 
(2.0). 
The creation of a green belt about London, the location of industries on 
selected rural sites, the preservation and creation of urban amenities, 
re-afforestation, the reclamation of waste lands, national waterways, a 
planned agriculture, the husbanding and balanced utilisation of the nation’s 
heritage in the shape of natural resources: all these were urged 250 years 
ago. What would the geography of England be to-day had planning 
achieved the victory over laissez-faire ? 
Mr. E. W. GiLBert.—The human geography of Menorca (2.45). 
Menorca, the second largest of the Balearic Islands, is 263 square miles 
in extent, and contained about 41,500 inhabitants according to the census of 
1930. ‘The island can be divided into two regions. The northern region 
contains low hills of which Toro (1,150 ft.) is the highest. The southern 
region is a limestone plateau and is deeply dissected by ravines. In spite 
