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V. The Crown Colonies and the War. 

 (Delivered at Trinity Hall, April 21st, 1917.) 

 By Sir Everard im Thurn, K.C.M.G., C.B. 



late Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western 

 Pacific, formerly Lieut. -Governor of Ceylon. 



Chairman : The Mayor of Bournemouth (Alderman H. Robson). 



Sir Everard im Thurn described the contributions in men, 

 money and materials made by the Crown Colonies from the out- 

 break of the war down to the time at which he was speaking. 

 He dealt, as might have been expected, most fully with those 

 Colonies in which he had himself been His Majesty's representa- 

 tive. British Crown Colonies are to be found alike in the Eastern 

 and Western hemispheres, north of the equator and south of it. 

 They differ in area, in population, and in the proportion of 

 colonists to native inhabitants. The systems of government are 

 also very various but, in this great time of testing, the devotion 

 of the inhabitants of British birth or descent and the loyalty of 

 the native races, have everywhere been conspicuous. 



THE PROBLEM OF KIMMERIDGE SHALE OIL. 



A Series of Papers read before the Geological Section 



BY 



W. Munn Rankin, M.Sc, B.Sc. 

 January 17th. 



A. Teichfeld. 



January 31st. 



A. J. G. Swinnet, M.E., M. Inst. M. & M. 



February 21st. 



The Geology of Kimmeridge Oil Shale. 



By W. Munn Rankin. 



The small village of Kimmeridge lies secluded from the world 

 across Poole Harbour and the Frome, the great heathlands and 

 the two ridges of Purbeck. It has, however, been long famous 

 in Geology, having given the scientific name not only to the thick 

 clays that lie immediately round about it and end in high sombre 

 cliffs between St. Alban's Head and Gad's Cliff, but also to the 

 great stretch of similar clays that range across England from 

 Dorset to Cambridge and continue through Lincolnshire into 

 Yorkshire. Kimmeridgian limestones, sandstones, and clays also 

 form extensive outcrops in Eastern France. 



