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THE total number of communications brought before Section C at Belfast was thirty-five. None of them can be said to have been of really great importance, but they were for the most part records of good work. The Committee on Life-zones in the Carboniferous Rocks sent in an admirable report of careful and systematic fossil-collecting. The Committees on the Underground Waters of N. W. Yorkshire and on Erratic Blocks were also able to show excellent work, and Prof. W. W. Watts, as usual, brought a good series of photographs which had been collected by his committee during the past year. Proceedings opened on Thursday, September 11, with the president's address, which has already been printed in our columns. It was followed by a lecture on the geology of the country around Belfast by Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole. On tfie morning of Sept. 15 Prof. Cole gave a second lecture, on the geological structure of Ireland; both lectures were illustrated by lantern slides and were listened to with close attention by large audiences. A considerable number of the papers naturally dealt with the geology of Ireland, and it may be convenient to notice them first and then to mention some of the other communications in geographical order. A proof-sheet of the Drift edition of the geological map of Ireland was exhibited by Mr. Teall, the director of the Survey. He explained that it was printed in colour instead of being hand-coloured, and was consequently clearer and would cost much less than the hand-coloured maps now issued by the Survey.
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Geology at the British Association . Nature 66, 619–620 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066619a0
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