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a circle towards the west. Similar effects have often heen recorded.' 

 Fourteen (or more) of the slender stone finials, each crowning 

 a separate pinnacle, were broken off by the shock. I cannot be sure 

 of the exact number, as I only saw the freshly fractured bases of 

 three finials from above. In several places on the roof stones were 

 horizontally displaced by the earthquake, from 1 inch at one end of 

 the stone to nothing at the other end. 



B. HOBSON. 



I«^ISOELL.^3SrEIOTJS. 



E-oTAL Society. — At the Conversazione held on June 24, 1909, the 

 following specimens were exhibited: — Sections of Seasonal Clay from 

 Stockholm. — This clay, which was deposited during the melting and 

 retreat of the great ice-sheet in Sweden, may be described as fossil 

 years and seasons. The alternating bands of dark and light are easily 

 seen, and Baron G. de Geer (from whom the specimens have been 

 received), believes that each cycle represents a year, the lighter rock 

 having been formed during the melting of the snows in spring. He 

 has traced these bands for great distances, and has been able to map 

 the changing limits of the ice-sheet from year to year through a long 

 period. This is the nearest approach to a definite chronology by years 

 that has yet been made by geologists, but it still needs to be linked up 

 to the chronology of human history. Exhibited by Dr. P. A. Bather, 

 E.B.S. 



Skull of Megalosaunis from the Great Oolite of Gloucester sliire. — 

 This is the first nearly complete skull of a carnivorous Dinosaur 

 found in Europe, and agrees with the skull of Ceratosaiirics, from the 

 Jurassic of Colorado, U.S.A., in exhibiting a bony horn- core on the 

 nose. The specimen was discovered by Mr. E. L. Bradley, E.G.S., 

 near Minchinhampton. Exhibited by Dr. A. Smith Woodward, E.R.S. 



jS'ew Museum at Louth, Lincolnshire. — The strenuous efforts of the 

 late Mr. Samuel Cresswell, Mr. Benjamin Crow, Mr. Joseph Larder, 

 Mr. R. W. Goulding, and the band of earnest workers in Louth, have 

 at last been crowned with success in that the Pahud Trustees of 

 that town have placed at the disposal of the Committee of the Louth 

 Antiquarian and ^Naturalists' Society the handsome sum of £250 

 towards a proper building. The Committee consider that they will 

 require at least double this sum for the purpose of building and 

 equipping a Museum and meeting-room on a site in Enginegate, the 

 property of the Corporation, and the plan of such a building is now 

 under consideration. The excellent collection of local antiquarian 

 and scientific specimens are at present housed in dangerous and 

 crowded quarters, and any contributor to the fund may be assured 

 that he is helping forward a movement of great value to the town 

 and district. Cheques may be drawn in favour of Mr. B. Crow, the 

 Hon. Treasurer, The Museum, New Street, Louth, Lines. 



I Convent of S. Bruno, Stefano del Bosco, Calabria, in 1783 ; Lyell, 

 Principles of Geology, 12th ed., 1875, ii, p. 119; Tokio, 1880; F. Fouque, 

 Les Tremblements de Terre, 1889, p. 56; Belluno, 1873; Aix la Chapelle, 1878; 

 W. H. Hobbs, Harthquakes, 1908, p. 92. 



