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Tv-itli the primarr object of collecting fossil and recent plants 

 on Disco Island and at other localities between lat. 69"^ X. and 

 71^ X. G-odthaab was reached on June 2Sth, and Grodhavn (Disco 

 Island) on July -Ith. Rather more than thi'ee weeks were pissed 

 at the Ai'ctic Station at Godhavn with Mr. Porsild, the Director, 

 who rendered invaluable service. The Arctic Station, which was 

 planned and dii-ected by ^Ir. Porsild, was afterwards taken over 

 and subsidized by the Danish Government. In the coui'se of two 

 motor-boat excursions, a distance of over 600 miles was covered ; 

 many localities were visited on the northern and north-eastern 

 coasts of Disco Island, on the coast of Xugsuak Peninsula, also 

 Hare Island, Upernivik Island, Eitenbenk, Sarkak, and Jakobshavn. 

 Greenland is an island nearlv 1700 miles Ions*, with an averaafe 

 breadth of about 600 miles ; approximately a hundred glaciers 

 from the inland ice reach the sea, the largest of which (the 

 Humboldt G-lacier) ends in a cliiff 60 miles broad. In the course 

 of the lecture attention was called to the various forms of icebergs 

 seen in G-reenland waters, and to the views expressed by Mercanton 

 on the origin of the various types. A brief account was given of 

 some of the characteristic types of vegetation. A general account 

 of the physical and geological featm-es of Greenland as a whole 

 was followed by a more detailed description of the Cretaceous and 

 Tertiary sedimentaiy series of Disco Island and the Xugsuak 

 Peninsula, and of the overlying and protecting basalts which in 

 some places rest directly upon the old Ai'chaean land-sui-face, to 

 the exclusion of the sedimentary series. Special attention was 

 dii'ected to the nature of the sedimentary rocks (most of which 

 are freshwater in origin), to the occuiTence of raised beaches, to 

 evidence of recent sinking of pai'ts of the western coast, and 

 to some of the more sti-iking examples of dykes and sills in the 

 Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentaiy series. 



Xo attempt was made to describe the palieobotanical results ; 

 but allusion was made to some of the problems presented by the 

 Cretaceous and Tertiary floras. 



A heai-ty vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to the 

 Lecturer. 



June 14th. 1922. 



Dr. G. T. Peioe, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Meurig Thomas Adam?, Croft House. 53 Morfa Sti-eet, Bridgend 

 (Glamorc^an) : Cecil Thomas Barber, B.Sc. School House, Cook- 

 hiU, near Alcester : George Stanfield Blake, B.Sc, A.E.S.M., 

 M.I.M.M., Imperial College of Science & Technology, S.W. 7 ; 

 John Henry Blizard, M.I.C.E., Eoman Eoad. Bemerton. Salis- 

 bury ; John McClelland Henderson, Ph.D., M.I.M.M.. Apartado 

 232". Maracaibo (Venezuela) : Carl Archibald PhiUips. P.O. Box 

 4:59, Calcutta (India) ; Marie Carmichael Stopes, D.Sc, Ph.D., 



