Geological Society. 77 



The author suggests the use of balances weighing to 0*01 grin., 

 and recommends supplying one balance to every six students. 

 Taking into account the number of experiments requiring the use of 

 a balance this seems hardly sufficient ; we incline to the opinion 

 that a larger number of cheaper balances weighing to 0-1 grm., say 

 one balance to each pair of students, would be preferable for 

 elementary physical work. 



Mr. Gregory has rendered good service by suggesting in so 

 practical a fashion a programme of physical work, which indicates 

 the nature of the instruction to be given, without binding a teacher 

 to follow it out entirely or even in consecutive order. 



James L. Howard. 



VIII. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 [Continued from vol. xl. p. 547.] 



November 20th, 1895.— Dr. Henry Woodward, E.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



THE following communications were read : — 

 1. 'Additional Notes on the Tarns of Lakeland.' By J. E. Marr, 

 Esq., M.A., E.R.S., Sec.G.S. 



This paper is supplementary to oiie by the author published in the 

 Q,. J. G. S. vol. li. (1895). He gives additional notes on Wateredbath 

 Tarn, describes Hard Tarn on Helvellyn, a pond whose outlet has 

 gradually been diverted from a course over screes to one over solid 

 rock ; Hayeswater, a lakelet referred to by Dr. H. E. Mill as in some 

 respects intermediate between the mountain-tarns and the valley- 

 lakes ; and Angle Tarn, Patterdale, a good example of a plateau- 

 tarn. The results of his fresh observations tend to confirm the views 

 expressed in his former paper. 



2. i Notes on the Glacial Geology of Arctic Europe and its 

 Islands.— Part I. Kolguev Island.' By Col. H. W. Eeilden, E.G.S. ; 

 with a ' Report on the Erratic Boulders from the Kolguev Beds,' by 

 Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, LL.D., E.R.S., E.G.S. 



Kolguev Island, about the size of Norfolk, lies about 50 miles 

 from Arctic Russia and about 130 miles south-west of the nearest 

 part of Novaya Zemlya, with soundings not exceeding 30 fathoms 

 between it and Russia, and probably not more than 75 fathoms 

 betw een it and Novaya Zemlya. It is entirely composed of a vast 

 accumulation of glacio-marine beds. The northern two-thirds of the 

 island consists of an elevated ridged area with a maximum height of 

 250 feet. The author has been furnished with notes by Mr. Trevor- 

 Batty e concerning the geology of this region. It is inferred from his 

 observations that this elevated region is composed of beds of sand 



