October j^th, ipoi.] Proceedings. Hi 



Ordinary Meeting, October 15th, 1901. 

 Charles Bailey, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of 

 the books upon the table. 



Attention was drawn to the following donations to the 

 Society's Library : — Christopher Hansteen's " Untersiuhtttigm 

 iiber den Magnetismus der Erde" (4to., Christiania, 1819), 

 presented by Dr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S., and Professor M. 

 Berlhelot's " Z^i' Ca^/w/-<?jr d' Hydrogene, 1851- 1901. Recheiches 

 experimenta/es'' (3 vols., 8vo., Paris, 1901), presented by the 

 Ministere de I'lnstruction publique et des Beaux-Arts, Paris. 



Mr. R. L. Taylor remarked that he had noticed that the 

 Manchester water appeared to contain an unusual amount of 

 dissolved chlorides at the present time, and, on roughly 

 estimating the amount of dissolved solids, he had found that 

 the total had, curiously enough, gone up from a normal amount 

 of about 4| grains to about 9^ grains per gallon, due, no doubt, 

 to the recent scarcity of water and to the concentration by 

 evaporation on the gathering grounds and in the reservoirs. 



Mr. R. D. Darbishire, F.S.A., read a paper entitled: 

 " On the ' Implements from the Chalk Plateau,' in Kent, 

 their Character and Importance." 



Mr. Darbishire illustrated with map and section the 

 outline of the denudation of the valley of the Weald, and 

 exhibited a very complete and well-arranged series of the 

 plateau remains. 



In the discussion which followed the reading of the paper, 



Mr. Mark Stirrup, F.G.S., referred to the recrudescence 

 of interest in these chipped flints during the last few years, owing 

 to various finds in the chalk districts of the South of England, 

 and to their connection with the theory of the antiquity of man. 

 With regard to one of the cases of exhibits, containing fragments 



