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ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
WAS HELD IN THE ROOMS OF THE INSTITUTE, ON 
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd, 1908. 
Lieut.-Colonel Mackinlay, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Election : — Rev. G. T. Manley, M.A. (Camb.), was elected Associate. 
The following paper was then read by the Secretary in the absence of 
the author : — 
ON THE GLACIERS, PAST AND PRESENT, IN THE 
SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND, TOGETHER 
WITH THE GREAT VERTICAL MOVEMENTS OF 
THE GROUND. By C. Dillworth Fox, Esq. (Associate 
Member). 
T HE South Island of New Zealand presents to even the 
uninstructed eye, the eye of the merely casual observer, 
many interesting problems ; one of the most interesting being 
that, in a climate cpiite as warm as the extreme South of 
England, there is a glacier system superior to any of the others 
in temperate climes ; that though the mountains are much 
lower than those in Central Europe (Mount Cook, the highest 
peak of the range being 12,845 feet high), the ice-work required 
to ascend them is much greater than in Switzerland, even 
though the sea, with its warmth and equable temperature, almost 
washes the foot of the range on the west. 
To those specially interested in glacial action, there are 
many points worthy of observation, for here can be studied, as 
nowhere else in temperate climates, such great ice-filled valleys 
nearly level, receiving on both sides secondary glaciers equal in 
