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This meeting was cancelled, but some members of the Section 

 met, and Mr. George Brownen, f.c.s., gave an address on " The 

 Local Aspects " of " The Roman Centuriation " in S.W. Hampshire, 

 with the proposed preparation of a map of the district by members 

 of the Society. 



Here again, especially, the loss of their Chairman has been felt 

 by the section, as he would have been an active co-operator with 

 Mr. Brownen in the production of the suggested map, which, for the 

 time being at least, had to be postponed, chiefly from the fact that 

 no member having the necessary qualifications could be found to 

 undertake to assist in the work which it entailed. 



At a Council Meeting held on the 17th January, 1911, Mr. 

 George de Castro, m.r.c.s. eng., etc., was appointed to fill the 

 vacancy as Chairman of the Geographical Section until the end of 

 the current year, and subject to the approval of the next Annual 

 Meeting. 



, ,. On Saturday, 21st January, 191 1, a meeting of the 

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in Relief Map ^ ec * 10n was held in the Society s Rooms, when Dr. 

 Makine Ord, the Chairman of Council, asked Mr. George 



de Castro to take the chair. 

 After referring to the loss the Society, generally, had sus- 

 tained by the decease of Mr. Alexander Scott, and thus accounting 

 for his presence in the chair, he introduced Mr. F. I. Babb, b.sc, 

 f.c.p., of Weymouth, and Mr. VV. I. Stanton of Wimborne, and 

 asked them to commence their demonstration in Relief map making : 

 a syllabus of the lecture was handed to those present. 



After explaining how the Contour Lines are drawn, they pro- 

 ceeded to show how the Vertical or "Serial Sections" were 

 produced, and joined together cardboard sections and Plasticine into 

 sandwiches ; these were built up, in a frame, into a model from 

 which a mould was taken in plaster and the surface covered with 

 patent knotting and oil. 



From this mould a plaster cast was made, which could be 

 coloured and finished afterwards. 



This process is the most correct one, but has to be commenced 

 and carried out without delay ; a large class can best do the work 

 quickly and efficiently. 



Mr. Stanton then demonstrated the Horizontal or Layer method ; 

 the contours being traced upon and cut out of cardboard of various 

 thicknesses to represent the heights — the model being built up of 

 these layers and hot glue, and the terraced appearance eliminated by 

 hand with a sharp penknife. 



Mr. Babb next constructed a small model of Hindostan on the 

 "Impressionist" method with Horizontal Layers, which he cut 

 out of Plasticine with a small knife " at sight." 



The whole demonstration was not only exceedingly practical 

 but distinctly inventive, and was also most lucidly explained. At 

 its close Dr. Ord, in moving a resolution of thanks to both Mr. 

 Babb and Mr. Stanton, suggested the making of a relief map of 



