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secretary's report. 
Farm. During the drive down Borrowdale excellent examples of 
roches moutonnees were noted. At Seatoller a very interesting rock 
containing epidote was examined. Thence the party strolled up 
the glen, the grand view from the summit of Honister Pass was duly 
enjoyed, and Buttermere was reached rather late owing to the 
numerous stops by the way. Here the delta separating the lakes of 
Buttermere and Crummock ^yater was examined, and a visit paid 
to Sour Milk Ghyll, where a series of Granophyre specimens were 
obtained showing an extraordinary variation in structure. The 
party returned to Keswick by way of the Yale of Newlands. 
The General Meeting was resumed, under the presidency of Mr. 
Kendall, on Saturday evening. A paper was read by ^Ir. John 
Postlethwaite on " The Geology of Keswick and District." In the 
course of the discussion which followed, the Chairman referred to 
some interesting points in the geology and physical geography of the 
neighbourhood. Alluding to the controversy as to the origin of the 
lake-basins, he did not think that either the advocates of ice-excavated 
lake-basins or those who claimed that they were ponded back by 
banks of moraine had satisfactorily proved their views. Probably 
each theory was right in certain cases. An interesting piece of evi- 
dence with regard to the rapidity of denudation was the present 
comparative levels of the twin lakes, Buttermere and Crummack, 
Derwent water and Bassenthwaite. The level of Bassenthwaite 
was lower than that of Derwentwater by no less than 21 feet, showing 
that the westward outlet of Bassenthwaite had been lowered by this 
amount since the separation of the two lakes by the delta of the Greta. 
There was a similar difTerence to be noticed in the levels of Butter- 
mere and Crummack Lake, which gave an interesting suggestion 
as to the remote period at which these lakes were separated. The 
proceedings closed by a hearty vote of thanks to the Chairman, the 
Readers of papers, and the Leaders of the party in the field. 
On Monday morning, July 1st, the party travelled to Troutbeck 
in order to visit Eycott Hill. From the station the way lay for a 
mile or two across meadows, but as the lower slopes of the hill were 
ascended a beautiful view of the Lake Hills was obtained. Crossing 
a stretch of moorland, Eycott Hill was climbed and the fine view 
