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v -t + fh ® n 2 5 ttl ' ^y kind invitation of the President, 



Bit- h Dr ' A * Smith Woodward > a P art y went for the da y 



n 15 to South Kensington, where they were received at 



Museum. tne Natural History Museum by Dr. Woodward, 



who conducted them round the Palaeontological Galleries, of which 

 he is the Keeper. A most interesting time was spent, all the most 

 important and recent additions to the Museum being exhibited and 

 explained to the visitors. Amongst these were the celebrated 

 Diplodocus carfiegii, a plaster reproduction, 8ofr. in length, of the 

 skeleton discovered in Wyoming, U.S.A., and presented to the 

 Museum by Andrew Carnegie, Esq. Also the equally interesting 

 remains of the largest known British Dinosaur — Cetiosaurus leedsi 

 — discovered in the Oxford Clay near Peterborough, which when 

 complete must have been 6oft. in length. The remains of the giant 

 sloth, especially its skin and hair, with evidences of its having 

 existed in a cave during the human period, perhaps having been 

 kept by early man as a curiosity or fetish, were objects of especial 

 interest, and Dr. Woodward's lucid account of their discovery was 

 much enjoyed. Amongst other features of the day must be men- 

 tioned—in the palaeo-botanical galleries— the magnificent fossil palm 

 frond, some 4ft. by 3ft., found in the cliffs at Branksome in the 

 Bagshot sands ot the Eocene period. In the afternoon the Mineral - 

 ogical galleries were visited. The kindness of the President in 

 giving up his time on this occasion, and providing such a fascinatingly 

 interesting programme to geologists was much appreciated. 



On August 3rd, the Geological Section visited 

 fcxcursion to Barton under the direction of Mr. H. Le Jeune, 

 Barton to Sea. assisted 5y Mr Eliot Walton, of Newmarket. 

 After a successful fossil hunt, the party collected at a convenient 

 spot on the beach, when a short paper was given by Mr. H. B. 

 Wells on the Eocene formations and their relation to the Cretaceous 

 strata, in which he described the physical and climatic conditions 

 under which the various Eocene strata appear to have been laid 

 down. Dr. Mahood then followed on the subject of Nummulites 

 during the Eocene period. 



This excursion, conducted by Dr. Ord on Sep. 14th, 

 d ^ ° W was largely attended and promised to be one of the 

 *™ most successful of the summer, but unfortunately 



Worbarrow Bay Qn ^g^ing Wareham rain commenced and con- 

 tinued uninterruptedly lor the whole day, and although about half 

 the party bravely went through the programme, little or no geology 

 could be done. The excursion will, it is hoped, be repeated under 

 more favourable circumstances in 1911. 



Through the kindness of Dr. Colley March a large 

 An- ™ * P art y assem bled at Dorchester and drove under 

 and District. hig guidance) to Maiden Castle, thence through 

 Winterbourne St. Martin to the Hardy Monument, and finally 



