Sir Francis Oldmead said that he had seldom heard a more interesting lecture or seen a finer collection of photographs.  He must be allowed to demur, however, to the lecturer’s description of the heavy snowfall in the highlands of Sandjakphu.  During his visit to that district, as they would see from the photographs which he would presently show on the screen, he enjoyed uninterrupted sunshine; nor had he met with the slightest difficulty from the Pangolins of Phagdub.  As for the best approach to Mount Amaranth he was convinced that the only feasible route was to work up the Yulmag valley to the Chikkim frontier at Lor-lumi, crossing the Pildash at Gonglam, and, skirting the deep gorge of the Spudgyal, ascend the Takpa glacier to Teshi Tsegpa.

Professor Parbatt expressed his keen appreciation of the vivid descriptions of Himalayan scenery given by the lecturer, and the admirably-selected photographs which had enlivened his address.  He wished, however, that he could have furnished more details as to his camp equipment.  Had he, for example, used Nummulitic beds for his party?  Then there was the question of geoidal deformation, on which he had remained unaccountably silent.  As for the vital problem of approaching Mount Amaranth, he ventured to differ from all the previous speakers.  The Northern, South-Western and Eastern routes were all equally impracticable, as he would conclusively demonstrate from the photographs he had brought with him.  But there were at least fourteen routes from the West, of which he would confine himself to four. (1) Starting from Yeh, the party might cross the Tablung-La pass to Gorkpa Nor, and thence follow the Yombo to Chilgat, where they would be only twenty-five miles from the foot of the western face of Amaranth. (2) They could follow the old Buriat pack-road to Amdo, diverge by the narrow defile of Koko-Pir-Panjal to Tumbung, and thence make for Ghapchu-Srong and Chyang-Chub-Gyultshan. (3) They might start from Pongrot and cross the Tok-Tok pass to Pilgatse. (4) They might construct a tube from Darjiling to Grogma-Nop, and thence proceed by aeroplane to the saddle of Makalu, or, better still, to the summit of Amaranth itself.  The last route was far the shortest and quickest, but it involved a certain amount of preliminary expense.

The Chairman having expressed his regret that Sir Marcon Tinway was not present to describe his experiments with man-lifting kites and trained albatrosses, the assembly dispersed after singing the Tibetan national anthem.

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[Illustration:  HOW TO BRIGHTEN THE PERIOD OF REACTION.

Mother (to son who has fought on most of the Fronts). “DON’T YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOURSELF, GEORGE?  WHY DON’T YOU ’AVE A WALK DOWN THE ROAD, DEAR?”

Father. “AH, ’E AIN’T SEEN THE CORNER WHERE THEY PULLED DOWN SIMMONDSES’ FISH-SHOP, ’AS ’E, MA?”]

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