32 PRESIDENT^ ADDRESS. 



with the rounded grains, but the long continued ice-wash 

 would cover the ground. 



In reviewing the work of this Society, Mr. J. F. Blake* 

 states, evidently from his study of our papers, that " flints are 

 hard to account for unless they have been brought there by 

 the hand of man." I cannot think that anything we have said 

 could be so construed, for though the statement would hold 

 good for flint-flakes, the occurrence of flints in our clays at all 

 elevations can point to one thing only, and that would be the 

 deposition of chalk over our island, chalk which the last 

 submergence has washed away while it left flints in large 

 numbers behind. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — I think you will see with me that 

 if these questions are to be handled and investigated by our 

 Geological Section there is no immediate fear of its dying of 

 inanition. I close this address with an appeal to all our 

 members to aid the Society in its work, to further its objects 

 as energetically as possible, and last, but not least, to do their 

 utmost to increase its numbers and thus increase its funds and 

 its usefulness. 



* Annals of British Geology, 1893, p. 10. 



