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ORDINARY MEETING, March 15, 1880. 
J. E. Howard, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following elections took place : — 
Member : — J. F. Bateman, Esq., F.R.S., London. 
Associates. — General Sir G. Malcolm, K.C.B., London ; Rev. G. Blencowe, 
Sheffield ; Rev. R. Phair, Canada ; E. Skinner, Esq., M.R.C.S., 
Sheffield. 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — .j 
ON THE EVIDENCE OF THE LATER MOVEMENTS 
OF ELEVATION AND DEPRESSION IN THE 
BRITISH ISLES . By Professor T. McK. Hughes, 
M.A., Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge. 
I N tlie course of some remarks made by the Duke of Argyll 
upon a paper which I had the honour of reading before 
this Society upon a former occasion,* his Grace said, “ I wish 
the attention of geologists were more directed to the question 
connected with the admitted fact of sea-gravels at a high 
elevation on our Welsh and Scottish mountains.” In conse- 
quence of which remark I was asked to put together such 
observations upon this subject as I had made myself or could 
collect from others, and communicate them to the Society. 
* The title of the paper (read March, 1879) was, “ The Present State 
of the Evidence bearing upon the Question of the Antiquity of Man” 
(“ transactions,” vol. xiii. page 316). The following is the text of his Grace’s 
letter (Ed.) : — 
“ I concur entirely in the general argument of Professor Hughes on the 
•antiquity of man. 
I would observe, however, that it assumes, as most geologists do generally 
