Geologii at the British Assoriation . — ('[(Ujixtle. 301 
His address was illustrated witli uuiiierous photographs which 
were projected upon a screen. A lively discussion followed in 
which Mr. Godwin Austin, Mr. P. Kendall, Dr. A. Irving, Rev. 
E. Hill and Profs. Fitzgerald and Claypole took part. Various 
suggestions and criticisms on the material and the method 
were made, hut the general opinion seemed to be that Prof. 
Sollas had entered on a valuable and interesting series of ex- 
periments and the hope was freely expressed that he would 
continue them. 
Prof. Scott, of Princeton, followed with a paper on the Ter- 
tiary lacustrine formations of North America, with lantern 
illustrations. He briefly but clearly sketched the geological 
history of these North American Tertiary beds of the West, 
especially of the Bad Lands, — the Puerco, the Wahsatch, the 
Bridger, the Uinta, the John Day and the Loup Fork — show- 
ing that they were all the deposits of fresh water lakes that 
occupied diit'erent areas in the region during Tertiary time. 
Each of these he illustrated by some of the remarkable forms 
of life by which it is characterized. 
At the reception by the Ipswich Scientific Societ}" and the 
Suti'olk Institute of Archeology on Thursday evening. Prof . F. 
W. Petrie exhibited a set of the stone and metal articles found 
during his recent researches in Egypt. These varied from 
paleoliths, or instruments of paleolithic type, to flints of the 
most perfect pattern and flnish that can well be conceived. 
With them were bronze articles of various dates but the oldest 
were coeval with the exquisite neoliths above mentioned, 
which are assigned by their discoverer to about 3000 B. V . 
The address of the president, Sir Douglas Galtoii, on Wed- 
nesday evening consisted of an extensive review of the prog- 
ress of the different sciences since the former meeting at 
Ipswich in 1851, but as geology received only a passing men- 
tion it would be irrelevant to dwell further upon it here. 
On Saturday interest was divided between the business of 
the section room, where Prof. O. ('.Marsh delighted an appre- 
ciative audience with an account of his discoveries and resto- 
rations in the great Tertiary deposits of the far West, and an 
excursion to see the English Pliocene of the county — the red 
and coralline crags. These beds are very local and are charged 
with shells in great profusion and rrc(iucutly in gooil condi- 
