20 11. HICKS ON BONE-CAVES IN WALES.

that the borders of the Bristol Channel, where the caverns mainlyoccur were but little affected at the time in comparison with suchan area as the Vale of Clwyd, in the immediate neighbourhood ofa mountainous district with great glaciers, opening also to thenorth and therefore subject during the period of submersion to theinfluence of floating ice from more northern areas.

ORDINARY MEETING.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5TH, 1884.

HENRY HICKS, ESQ., M.D., F.G.S., President, in the chair.

The list of donations to the library since the last meeting wasread, and the thanks of the Association were returned to thedonors.

The following were elected members of the Association :-J.Alston; R. B. Grantham; T. D. Palmer Jones j H. Lawrence j

A. G. Leeson j W. Mawer, F.G.S.; H. L. Millar.The following paper was then read: _If Preliminary Notice of

the East Anglian Earthquake of April 22nd, 1884." By RaphaelMeldola, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.C.S.

ON SOllE GEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE EAST ANGLIAN EARTH­QUAKE OF APRIJ, 22ND, 1884.

By RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.R.A.S., F.C.S., &c.

Rarely in the history of British earthquakes has a shock beenexperienced of such destructiveness as that which I now proposeto bring under the notice of the Members of the Geologists' Asso­ciation. Among the most noteworthy of these visitations during theperiod extending from the 12th century down to the present time,we have but about half-a-dozen records which as regards structuraldanger can be compared with the present disturbance. In 1185Lincoln Cathedral and many other buildings in the county wereseriously damaged. In 1248 a violent shock in the west of Eng­land caused the partial destruction of the Cathedrals of Wellsand St. David's and many other churches in Somersetshire weredamaged. In 1275 again many churches are said to have beendamaged in the western counties, and St. Michael's, Glastonbury,thrown down. In 1382, the sixth year of Richard II., many