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a very large deposit is found, just above the ordinary high-water 

 mark. The deposit consists of minute spherical grains or nodules 

 of sand-like character. These, on being analysed, prove to contain 

 60 per cent, of iron-oxide. In the cliff the iron-ore occurs in 

 bands, the grains of which it is composed forming a compact grey 

 conglomerate which turns dark brown on exposure. Many pieces 

 of the conglomerate are to be found on the shore in a rolled 

 condition. When disintegrated, they are deposited by the joint 

 action of the eastward drift of the tide and the south-westerly wind 

 along the shore. The deposit last year measured about half a mile 

 in length, by about 30 or 40 yards in width, and was 3 to 4 feet 

 deep. 



The following communication was read : — 



'The Miocene Beds of the Victoria Nyanza and the Geology of 

 the Country between the Lake and the Kisii Highlands.' By 

 Felix Oswald, D.Sc, B.A., F.G.S. ; with Appendices on the Verte- 

 brate Remains, by Charles William Andrews, D.Sc, F.R.S. ; on 

 the Non-Marine Mollusca, by Richard Bullen Newton, F.G.S. ; and 

 on the Plant-Remains, by Miss Bancroft. 



In addition' to the exhibits described on pp. xcviii-xcix, Lower 

 Miocene mammalia and gasteropoda from the Victoria Nyanza, 

 and rocks and stone-implements from the Nyanza Province, also 

 Pleistocene mammalia from British East Africa, were exhibited in 

 illustration of Dr. Felix Oswald's paper. 



On Wednesday, June 18th, 1913, a Conversazione, at which 

 about three hundred ladies and gentlemen were present, was held 

 in the Society's Apartments, from 9 to 11.30 p.m. In the course 

 of the evening, lectures, illustrated by lantern-slides, were delivered 

 by Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S., on 'The Buried Landscape of 

 Charnwood Forest,' and by Capt. H. G. Lyons, F.R.S., on ' The 

 Marshes of the Upper Nile.' Many interesting exhibits were shown 

 by Dr. R. Broom, Mr. G. M. Davies, Mr. G. E. Diblev, Dr. J. W. 

 Evans, Mr. W. F. Gwinnell, the Rev. PI. N. Hutchinson, Dr. J. S. 

 Owens, Mr. J. Postlethwaite, Mr. T. W. Reader, Mr. W. P. D. 

 Stebbing, Dr. Marie C. Stopes, Mr. Bristow J. Tully, Dr. A. Wade, 

 Mr. T. H. Withers, Mr. W. Wright, and the Director of H.M. Geo- 

 logical Survey. 



