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30th March, 1912. The use of Trinity 

 Morocco. Hall was granted by the Council for the 



delivery of a lecture on " Morocco of 

 the past and of To-day," by Samuel 

 Wood, Esq., who showed that the early immigration of 

 savage peoples into Northern Africa had been followed by that 

 of the Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Romans, and how the 

 Vandals had crossed from Spain into Roman Africa, while later 

 the Arabs had invaded Europe, and, with the Berbers and Moors, 

 had occupied Spain for many centuries, and yet the Moors of 

 to-day had lost their former civilization, while their country, with 

 the greater part of the South Mediterranean Coast, was gradually 

 becoming colonized by the modern Latin Races of Southern 

 Europe. 



Summer Session. 



Visit to nth September, 1912. Arrangement had been 



Southampton. made, through the courtesy of the Director- 

 General of the Ordnance Survey Office, to allow 

 of a visit to the Government Department at its headquarters at 

 Southampton, and the Chairman of the Section provided the 

 members who formed the party with a compilation of notes giving 

 the history, progress and work of the O.S. of the U.K., from the 

 date of its origin, about the middle of the 18th Century. 



On meeting in the Library, in which were laid out for inspec- 

 tion a series of large and small scale O.S. maps, as well as the 

 engraved plates from which they had been printed, a short 

 description of the processes used in their production was given ; 

 this was rendered all the more interesting as maps had been 

 selected which represented the district of Bournemouth more 

 especially, while to these had been added some Geological maps 

 of West Hampshire and of Dorsetshire. 



The party was then divided into three sections, each one being 

 led through the following departments by one of the officers of 

 the R.E. staff, by whom the work in each was most lucidly and 

 fully explained : — The Drawing, and the Electro-typing Depart- 

 ments ; the Photographic Department, with the Helio-zincographic 

 and Vandyke Processes of reproduction ; the Printing and Colour- 

 ing Department ; the Trigonometrical and Levelling Department ; 

 also the inspection of Bars and Standards of Length, which are 

 carefully preserved in special buildings constructed for the 

 purpose. 



With this last Department the tour of inspection, in which 

 everything seen was of very great interest, came to an end. 



Three of the General Lectures delivered to the Society during 

 the Winter Session were of special Geographical interest : The 



