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at the Keswick Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. Percy F. Kendall, 
F.G.S. The following new members were elected :— Rev. W. Johnson 
(York), Rev. Henry Canham, F.G.vS. (Leathley), Dr. Tempest 
Anderson, F.G.S. (York), Messrs. Edmund Spence (Clapham). 
Norman McLeod R. Wilson, A.M.I.C.E. (Northallerton), Simeon 
Walton (Elland), Joe Sagar (Halifax), W. Denison Roebuck, 
F.L.S. (Leeds). The Chairman delivered an interesting address on 
the work to be done during the meetings. He pointed out that the 
primary object and justification of a meeting so far from Yorkshire 
was the fact that in the Keswick district there was a series of rocks 
which were found as erratics in the Yorkshire Drifts. He also 
pointed out the great interest of the glacial geology of the district, 
and said that there was another subject of great interest, viz., the 
origin of the lake-basins. 
Mr. C. S. Middlemiss, F.G.S., of the Indian Geological Survey, 
gave an address on the Geology of the Himalayas. He commented 
on the practice of some geologists, who had done good work in England^ 
of expressing opinions on the geology of districts of which they 
could know nothing, and pointed out that several eminent geologists 
had expounded the theory that the Himalayas were of very modern 
origin, one — Sir Henry Howarth — going so far as to say that the 
range was upheaved in post-glacial times. Mr. Middlemiss gave 
an account of certain characteristic districts, and contended that 
the system was not so simple as was suggested, but was like an ancient 
house, built in different times and with different materials, and there 
was no evidence to sustain the theory of a sudden and wholly modern 
upheaval. 
An interesting discussion followed, in which Messrs. B. Hobson 
(Owens College), W. Lower Carter, C. W. Fennell, F. F. Walton, 
J. W. Stather, and the Chairman took part. 
On Saturday morning the party, about 30 in number, took the 
noted Buttermere round, via Borrowdale and Honister Pass. Castle- 
head, an old volcanic neck rising 300 feet above the lake, was noted, 
and a halt made at Falcon Crag to examine the lava beds exposed on 
its slopes. A detour was made at Grange to examine the junction 
between the Skiddaw Slates and the Borrowdale Series at Hollows 
