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The amounts received towards the expenses of the Conversazione 

 in May, 1892, was not sufficient to meet the expenses incurred 

 According to the Hon. See's. Account ^9 5s. 6d. was received, out of 

 which he paid ^8 13s. ud., leaving a balance in hand of iis yd 

 which he has handed to me. There are, however, two bills to pay 

 amounting t0;^3 4s., so that there is a claim of £2 12s. ^d. to be met 

 by the Society. 



The rent of the room recently vacated in High Street was £x^ 

 per annum. The rent of the two rooms now occupied in Waiting Street 

 is ^10 a saving of expenditure will be therefore effected as regards the 

 current year. 



Presuming that in 1894 the amount received for subscriptions will be 

 as great as that received in 1893 (and I see no reason why this should 

 not be the case), it is highly probable that the Finances of the Society 

 will be in a much more satisfactory state at the end of that year than 

 they are at present. 



J. A. BLOFELD, 



T „ Honorary Treasurer, 



January, 1894. ' 



REPORT ON SUB-COMMITTEES. 



I.— COAST EROSION, 



By Captain McDakin. 



Coast Erosion of the Dover Cliffs from Folkestone to St. Margarets : 

 This Report was concluded and sent into the Committee of the 

 British Association early in 1893. 



The coast line has been compared with the Ordnance six-inch map 

 for 1876. Although there has been several heavy falls amounting to 

 some thousands of tons no great subsidence or change of outline has 

 taken place. Amongst the heaviest falls were those of January 1877, 

 near the Abbot's Cliff, interrupting the S.E. Railway traffic for two 

 months, by which two lives were lost ; the fall of the Cornhill Cliff 

 (about 2 miles east of Dover), on the 23rd February, 1891, and the 

 shp of the undercliff near the Warren Inn, on the 4th November, 1892. 



SAingle has accumulated to a depth of about 15 feet to the west 

 of the Admiralty Pier at Dover during the last 20 years. 



