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[Proc. B. N. F. C, 



WINTER SESSION. 



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Note. — The authors of the various Papers, of which abstracts are here appended, are 

 alone responsible for the views expressed in them. 



-Mr 



SOCIAL MEETING. 



HE Winter Session of the Club was opened on Novem- 

 ber 13th, by a social evening in the Museum, 

 College Square North. According to the practice of 

 recent years, the lady members dispensed tea and other refresh- 

 ments in the lower room with their accustomed grace and skill, 

 after which a brief business meeting was held in the lecture- 

 room, the chair being taken by Mr. W. Gray, M.R.I.A., the Pre- 

 sident of the Club. In the course of his remarks he referred to his 

 recent visit to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he attended the meeting 

 of the British Association as Delegate from the Club, and in that 

 capacity was placed on several of the Committees. To the work 

 of these he referred, stating that the Geological Committee were 

 anxious to encourage the recording by photography of geological 

 phenomena, and solicited the co-operation of photographers, 

 professional or amateur, for this purpose. The Biographical 

 Committee, of which Mr. Gray was also a member, he stated, 



