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OEDlIsTAEY GENERAL MEETING* 

 General Halliday in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following election was announced : — 

 Member : — Rev. W. P. Schuster, M.A., Vicar of West Lulworth. 

 The following papers were read : — 



ON THE GEOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE 

 VOLCANOES OF THE WEST INDIES By J. W. 

 SPENCEii, M.A., Ph.D.,r.G.S. (No. 1.) (With Map of the 

 West Indian Islands.) 



ST. VINCENT has been one of the danger-places of the 

 earth, with its volcanic forces devastating the island, 

 nearly two hundred years ago, and again a century later ; 

 hurricanes sweeping off the magnificent tropical vegetation, 

 only three or four years since, and lately the revival of volcanic 

 eruptions carrying destruction to the existing order of things, 

 and building up new physical features. The general interest 

 in such great changes has been concentrated upon Martinique, 

 on account of the volcanic activity being on a more limited 

 area and annihilating a whole city. It is this feature which 

 has awakened the popular interest and drawn to the scene 

 various scientific observers and adventurers, who have described 

 the pathetic side of the devastation and the new conditions in 

 the island. But working quietly at the problem of the late 

 changes of level of land and sea, the writer, after having spent 

 much time in the West Indies aud Central America, has studied 

 especially the phenomena which bear upon the question of the 

 age of the volcanoes, and of their place in geological history. 

 It is this aspect of the question which is here brought forward. 



* Monday, April 20th, 1903. 



