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the Courts of Trinity and Clare Colleges and Trinity Chapel, with its fine
statue of Newton by Roubillac. Magdalene College was also visited, and
the Hall and Combination Room inspected.
On Sunday most of the party attended the morning service in King's
College Chapel, and some also the afternoon service, these enjoying the
delight of a divinely-rendered solo from the "Messiah" by one of the
choristers. The Fitzwilliam Museum, with its wealth of pictures, manu-
scripts, pottery, glass, and Roman and Egyptian antiquities, was also
visited, and the chapel of Peterhouse College was inspected by some of the
party.
In the early evening a walk through the meadows to Grantchester,
to view Mr. J.J. Lister's garden, was undertaken in the rain.
On Easter Monday the day's programme included a visit to the
Sedgwick Museum of Geology, where Professor J. E. Marr, Sc.D., F.R.S.,
welcomed the party and acted as conductor. Professor Marr, in his
address, referred to the great imperfection of the geological record, re-
marking that we possessed only "the last six chapters out of some forty
or fifty '' which constituted the complete record. He rapidly led us through
the entire chain of geological time, as represented by the specimens
exhibited in the Museum. Commencing with the oldest organisms yet
known, and commenting on the short-lived Graptolites of Ordovician
times, which serve as useful zone-determinants for the individual beds,
Professor Marr next exhibited the fish-remains contained in nodules of
Old Red Sandstone Age, which nodules usually take the rough outline
of their included fossils, then spoke of the abundant plant remains of
Coal Measure times and of the Glossopteris fauna contained in boulder-
clays of Permian date in the southern hemisphere, which tell of an Ice Age
in that remote period. The lecturer also referred specially to the numerous
fossils derived from the Gault and contained in the so-called "Upper
Greensand of Cambridge" at the base, of the Chalk Series. Coming to
more recent deposits Professor Marr exhibited, with pardonable pride,
the complete skeleton of Hippopotamus amphibius from the Pleistocene
river-gravel of Barrington, 5 miles from Cambridge, which has been re-
constructed from the numerous bones found in that deposit, though these
probably did not all belong to a single individual.
A skull of the Aurochs, Bos primigenius, found in Burwell Fen, with
a polished neolithic stone axe imbedded in its skull, attracted considerable
interest. It was gratifying to hear two Members of our Club, Mr. E. T.
Newton and Mr. S. Hazzledine Warren, referred to by Professor Marr in
connection with original work done by them.
Passing to the adjoining new Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology,
the visitors, in the absence of the Curator, Baron von Hugel, were re-
ceived by Mr. Coles, and were conducted by him round the exhibits, which
are not yet, however, properly displayed.
In the afternoon some of the party visited Corpus, Pembroke, Jesus,
Sidney Sussex, Christ's, Emanuel, and Downing Colleges, and the mag-
nificent modern Roman Catholic Church ; others were busily preparing
for their return journey: and by seven o'clock in the evening all had left
for home, except four members who stayed on for an extra day's sight-
seeing, when the women's colleges, Newnham and Girton, were inspected,
the latter in detail.