336 The American Geoloyist. November. 1896. 
The British Association Miceting in Liverpool. 
The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the British Association for 
the Advancement of Science, held September 17 to 23 in Liver- 
pool, under the presidency of Sir Joseph Lister, had an attend- 
ance of nearly 3,200, being one of the largest meetings of this 
Association. The address of Prof. J. E. Marr, president of Sec- 
tion C (Geology), reviewed the recent progress of stratigraphic 
geology. It is published in Nature for September 24. and in 
the Geoloyical Magazine for October. Thirty-four papers 
were presented in this section, to which, also, fifteen commit- 
tees, appointed at previous meetings, made reports on special 
subjects of geological investigation. Three papers related 
particularly to America, as follows: 
Pre-Cambrian Fossils, especially in Canada. Sir J. W. 
Dawson. 
Some Features of the Early Cambrian Faunas. G. F. 
Matthew. 
The Hicjhwood Mountains of Montana and Magmatic Dif- 
fer e^itiat ion: a Criticism. H. J. Johnston- Lavis. 
Seven papers pertained to the Glacial period and to Quater- 
nary geographic changes, including one by Prof. Edward 
Hull, on " Another possible Cause of the Glacial epoch." 
In Section E (Geography) thirty-one papers were read, and 
two committees presented reports. The following papers were 
on American subjects : 
Canada and its Gold Discoveries. Sir J. Grant. 
The ^'■Schomburgk Lines^' in British Guiana. Ralph Rich- 
ardson. 
The Boundary Line between British Columbia and Alaska. 
E. Odlum. 
Dr. F. P. Gulliver, of Norwich, Conn., read a paper in this 
section, on " The Coast-forms of Romney Marsh," describing 
the V-bar shingle ridges in the vicinity of Dungeness, Kent, 
on the Strait of Dover, which illustrate tidal action in the 
formation of cuspate forelands, as recently discussed by the 
author for the coast of America (Bulletin G. S. A., vol. vii, 
1895, pp. 399-422). 
Five days, next following the adjournment of this meeting. 
were occupied by an excursion of geologists, zoologists, bot- 
anists, and archaeologists, in examining the Isle of Man, the 
geological party being led by Prof. Boyd Dawkins and Mr. 
G. W. Lamplugh. 
The next meeting of the British Association, of which Sir 
John Evans is the president-elect, will be held in Toronto, 
Canada, beginning August 18, 1897. All members of the 
American Association, which will meet in Detroit, Mich., are 
invited to attend the Toronto meeting. For that purpose the 
Detroit meeting is to be during the week of August 9 to 14, 
an unusually early date. w. u. 
