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the Association just as the meetings of the other Sections 

 are. I received no notice of the time, date, or place of the 

 meeting at which I was to bring forward my motion, and it was 

 quite by accident that I found on the back of the Journal a short 

 footnote of the time, &c, of the meeting. One or two Societies 

 were not represented, at any rate at the first meeting, owing to 

 their Delegates not having discovered when or where the meeting 

 was to be held. 



In the discussion which followed, Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse 

 strongly supported the Delegate in his criticism of the arrange- 

 ments in connection with the Conference. He also dwelt upon 

 the hardship to geological students occasioned by the raising of 

 the prices of geological maps, for some of which the price had 

 been advanced to 8/6 and even to 16/-, whilst the only ones 

 remaining at the old price of 3/- were those showing merely a small 

 proportion of land, the greater portion of the section being sea. 

 The President, Messrs. H. L. Orr and W. J. C. Tomlinson, also 

 joined in the discussion. Mr. N. H. Foster proposed and Mr. 

 A. W. Stelfox seconded " that a copy of the Delegate's Report be 

 sent to the Secretary of the Corresponding Societies Committee," 

 and the motion was passed. 



Mr. J. A. S. Stendall was then called upon by the President for 

 his paper on " Rare Old Chester," in which he said — " A city of 

 the ancients, a city unrivalled in the whole of the British Isles for 

 its evidences of ancient times, a city of beauty, such is rare old 

 Chester. The quaint old-world character of the place, encircled 

 by its walls, with its 'rows' of unknown origin, and its many 

 evidences of Roman and mediaeval occupation, renders it of great 

 interest to the historian and antiquarian. More than a thousand 

 years of changeful history is presented to us in this city. The 

 date at which Chester first became a Roman camp is uncertain, 

 but it seems quite clear that it was not until some time in the 

 latter half of the first century of our era, when we find the 



