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phenomena when investigated in this order may not appear so 

 startling as if the reverse mode of procedure had been adopted. 

 Nearly every lake and tarn in the district is more or less 

 surrounded by moraine matter, which has somewhat obscured 

 the question, early observers having inferred that the tarns 

 were entirely due to this cause ; but a careful examination will 

 show them to be rock basins, whose holding capacity has been 

 somewhat increased by the moraine banks which, at a later 

 period of the Glacial epoch have been deposited around them. 



A discussion followed, in which several members expressed 

 their interest in the subject, but expressed doubts regarding 

 some of the more extreme conclusions of the geological sur- 

 veyors. 



On 13th April — ^The eighteenth Annual General Meeting of 

 the Society was held in the Museum, College Square North, on 

 Wednesday Evening, 13th April — the president, Mr, William 

 Gray, M.R.I.A., in the chair. 



After some remarks from the President, 



The Senior Hon. Secretary was called upon to read the 

 Annual -Report, from which it was gratifying to learn that the 

 Club continued to enjoy increasing success not only in regard 

 to the interest evinced by the Members in its aims and objects, 

 but in the cordial sympathy extended by the general public. 



The Hon. Treasurer also reported favourably on the 

 financial state of the Society for the past year, and stated that 

 after defraying all expenses, including the volume of Proceed- 

 ings, he was enabled to carry forward a satisfactory balance. 



After hearing the report of the judges who had examined 

 the various collections submitted in competitions for prizes 

 offered by the Club, and by the retiring President, the Election 

 of Officers was proceeded with. 



Dr. James Moore, M.R.I.A., Hon. R.H.A., in compli- 

 mentary terms proposed that Robert Young, Esq., C.E., be 

 elected as president for the ensuing year. 



