OEDINARY MEETING* 



Rev. John Tuckwell, M.R.A.S., ix the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following candidates were put forward by the Council : — 



Member : — George Benson Clough, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. 

 Associate : — Harry Bonny, Esq. 



The following paper was read by the Author : — 



ON THE AGE OF THE LAST UPRISE OF THE 

 BRITISH ISLES (With Map.) By Professor Edward 

 Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. (Secretary). 



CONTENTS. 



Part I. Pre-human Oscillations of Land in Post-Tertiary Times. 



1. Introduction : — Numerous oscillations of land in British Isles in the 



Post-Tertiary Period, divisible into Pre-Human, Pre-Historic and 

 Historic, as follows : — 



fl. Great elevation of land during the first 

 Pre-historic | glacial epoch, or Great Ice Age. 

 or Pre-human <j 2. "The Great Submergence " or inter-glacial 

 period. j epoch. 



1^3. Re-elevation of the second glacial epoch. 

 Human Period. 4. Final emergence, as determined by the 

 raised beaches. 



Part II. Eaised Beaches of the Human Period in Britain. 



2. Description of the raised beaches along the coast of Scotland and of 



North-East Ireland, their levels and enclosed works of human 

 art, etc. 



3. Special interest of the works of art made of iron. 



4. Gildas' description of the Picts during the Roman occupation and its 



historic interest. 



* Monday, March 7th, 1904. 



