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pillars. It seemed to have entirely displaced the use of interlaced 

 patterns. 



At the close the paper was favourably commented on by the 

 President, Mr. E. J. M'Kean, B.L., Mr. Robert May, Mrs. 

 Hobson, and Mr. T. Dewhurst, and a vote of thanks to Miss 

 Lamb brought the proceedings to a close, thus completing the 

 work of the Section for this Session. 



Geological Section. 



" BEEKITE. 



The above Section of the Club held their last meeting for 

 the present Winter Session in the Museum on Wednesday 

 evening, 25th March — the Chairman of the Section, Mr. W. J. C. 

 Tomlinson, presiding. Two very interesting communications 

 were brought before the meeting dealing with certain minerals 

 found plentifully in the immediate district. The first paper was 

 by Mr. Robert Bell, on the newly-recognised mineral "Beekite;" 

 the second, by Mr. James Strachan, on "The Origin and 

 Formation of Zeolites in Basalt." It is gratifying to know that 

 our local geologists in connection with the Field Club are be- 

 coming alive to the importance of the studies with which these 

 papers dealt. It is an open secret that geologists and mineralogists 

 from England and the Continent have of late been paying frequent 

 visits to our districts, and accumulating a mass of material and 

 information regarding these and kindred matters such as they do 

 not find so readily available elsewhere. 



Mr. Bell stated that a short time ago his attention was drawn 

 by Mr. W. H. Wickes, of Bristol, to the occurrence of the mineral 

 named Beekite on certain fossils which the latter had collected in 

 the South of England. The lecturer, on re-examining his own 

 collection of local fossils, was agreeably surprised to find on 



