8 Report, 8fc. 



Whether the existence of the second freshwater formation 

 may be traced to the same cause as the first, must be left like it 

 undecided. However it was it must have been formed anterior to 

 the present state of the earth's surface, and in a lake. 



Subsequent to this some still more powerful commotion seems 

 to have taken place, in which the tertiary formations of the Hamp- 

 shire basin were lifted up ; and what was once part of the bottom 

 of a lake became the summit of Headon Hill. 



Of the Alluvium at Headon Hill I have nothing to say. It 

 contains, as far as 1 can gather, no organic remains of any kind 

 whatever, consisting mainly of various flints. Some seemingly 

 have been brought from the chalk, others of a jasper-like lustre 

 take a polish. Along with these are found some few shells, 

 apparently the detritus of some of the more ancient strata. 



Friday, June SOtk, 1866. 



A Special Meeting was held at the Rev. B. F. Westcott's House. 



The Hon. W. T. Kenyon was elected a member : and the Rev. 

 E. H. Bradby, and M. Masson, honorary members. 



Mr. Westcott gave an account of the development of Gothic 

 Architecture in England, pointing out the broad distinctive fea- 

 tures of the architecture of the various periods, from the Saxon to 

 the late Perpendicular Period. 



On the following day a number of Members of the Society 

 made an excursion to St. Alban's, where, under the guidance of 

 Mr. Westcott, they visited the venerable Abbey and the Church 

 of St. Michael. 



Wednesday, July ISt/i, 1866. 



A Conversazione was held in the Vaughan Library. 



The Society was honoured by the presence of a large party of 

 friends, chiefly inhabitants of Harrow. 



