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will be abundant opportunity for members of 

 tbe section to present pai)ers. The Plattsburg 

 meeting is one primarily for field excursions. 



The Hotel Champlain, charmingly situated 

 overlooking the lake, will accommodate 300 

 to 400 persons. The rate will be about four 

 dollars a day. 



The Champlain Assembly, incorporated as 

 the ' Catholic Summer School of America,' 

 has invited the members of Section E, through 

 its director, Mr. John B. Kiley, to be its 

 guests during the meeting. Eooms may be 

 secured at one dollar a day in the buildings of 

 the Champlain Assembly. Members may take 

 their meals at the Champlain Club ; breakfast, 

 lunch, or supper, fifty cents; dinner, seventy- 

 five cents. The grounds of the Champlain 

 Assembly are three miles south of Plattsburg 

 and less than half a mile from the Hotel 

 Champlain. Both may be reached from 

 Plattsburg- by steam-train or trolley. 



A circular will be sent about June 15 to 

 those who plan to attend the meeting. This 

 will give information in regard to railroad 

 rates. The summer excursion rates will 

 doubtless make it possible to secure round-trip 

 tickets for a little more than one and one third 

 single fare. 



The sectional committee of Section E ex- 

 tends a cordial invitation to all members of 

 the Geological Society of America and the 

 Association of American Geographers to at- 

 tend the Plattsburg meeting. 



F. P. Gulliver, 

 Secretary Section E 



Norwich, Conn., 

 April 25, 1907 



THE LEICESTER MEETING OF THE BRITISH 

 ASSOCIATION' 



The British Association is assured of a 

 hearty welcome to Leicester for its seventy- 

 seventh annual meeting to be held there from 

 July 31 to August 7, under the presidency of 

 Sir David Gill, K.C.B., P.E.S. Leicester is a 

 place of great antiquity, few towns in England 

 having a longer history of uninterrupted ac- 

 tivity. Its Roman remains include the 

 * Jewry Wall,' a remarkable example of brick- 



^ From Nature. 



work, and some mosaic pavement in situ. The 

 geological features of the district are compre- 

 hensive, the Charnwood Forest, with its rocks 

 providing many a geological puzzle, being 

 within a few miles of the town. Botanists, 

 too, have a happy hunting-ground there. The 

 local committees and sub-committees are work- 

 ing hard to insure the success of their efforts, 

 and great interest is being shown on all sides 

 in the visit of the association to Leicester. A 

 guarantee fund of more than 3,300Z. has been 

 raised towards the necessary expenses of the 

 welcome, and this without any public appeal 

 being made. No less than eleven amounts of 

 100?. and upwards are included in this sum. 



A call has been made on all the principal 

 halls and public buildings throughout the town 

 for general and sectional use, and it is believed 

 that the arrangements when completed will be 

 most satisfactory in every way. The greatest 

 difficulty the executive committee have had to 

 meet has been the fact that Leicester possesses 

 no town hall or public building large enough 

 for the purposes of the holding of the usual 

 conversazione and general reception of the 

 large number of members and guests antici- 

 pated. An ingenious suggestion, however, on 

 the part of the chairman of the executive com- 

 mittee (Mr. Alfred Colson), which has met 

 with the full approval of all concerned, 

 promises to overcome all obstacles, and even to 

 make the proposed conversazione additionally 

 attractive on account of the unique way in 

 which it will be housed. The intention is to 

 utilize the whole of the present museum build- 

 ings, including the art gallery and mayoral 

 reception rooms, for the use of which per- 

 mission has been granted, and to erect on the 

 four sides of the grass square adjoining a 

 loggia or corridor constructed entirely of 

 timber, 25 feet in width, forming a covered 

 promenade about 500 feet in length. The 

 four outer sides will be closed, but the inner 

 sides, overlooking the grass-plot, will be open, 

 and so constructed as to be easily beautified 

 with floral decorations. Internally the loggia 

 will be draped with incombustible material and 

 fitted with electric light and suitable furni- 

 ture. Besides answering for the reception to 

 be given by the Leicester Literary and Philo- 



