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ORDINAEY GENERAL MEETING* 

 General Halliday in the Chair. 



The Miijutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following election was announced : — 

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



The Secretary. — We have here, Mr. Chairman, through the 

 courtesy of Dr. Tempest Anderson, of York, a number of photo- 

 graphic slides taken by himself when in the company of Dr. Flett. 

 He was sent out by the Royal Society to report on the volcanic 

 eruptions of St. Vincent and Martinique. 



The Chairman. — We all owe a vote of thanks to Dr. Tempest 

 Anderson, who has lent the slides we have just seen. [Applause.] 



The Rev. John Tuckwell then read the following paper : — 



VOLCANIC ACTION AND THE WEST INDIAN 

 ERUPTIONS OF 1902. By J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S., 

 E.R.G.S. Author of Mount Vesuvius, etc. 



No. II. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Introduction 208 



Volcanic Phenomena ... ... ... ... ... ... 210 



The West Indian Eruptions 214 



Geological and Geographical Conditions and Results of 



Volcanic Action ... ... ... ... ... ... 218 



The Cause of Volcanic Action ... ... ... ... 221 



Introduction. 



THE disastrous results of the West Indian eruptions of the 

 present year have again powerfully drawn the attention 

 of the civilized world to volcanic action. 



With the advance of education, and the development of the 

 means of communicating and disseminating information of 

 those natural phenomena that conspicuously affect the material 

 well-being of mankind, an intelligent interest in these 



^ Monday, April 20th, 1903. 



