20 PK0CEEDING8 OF THE 



clay, laminated, streaked, or interspersed with fine sand, with septaria 

 and minute crystals of barytes, with occasional nodules, veins, or 

 spaces of bright green sand, being the only highly colored specimens 

 in our neighbourhood suggestive of the term Greensand, applied to 

 the stratum next inferior. Amongst the fossils obtained from the 

 Gault exhibited by Mr. Webb were 4 species of Zoophyta, 4 Echi- 

 nodermata, 3 Annelida, 3 Cirrhipedia, 5 Crustacea, 12 Monomyaria, 

 11 Dimyaria, 24 Gasteropoda (including 5 species of Dentalium, 

 and 5 of Trochus), 26 Cephalopoda (including 6 Hamites, 16 Am- 

 monites, and 3 Belemnites) ; also teeth of Sharks and other fishes. 



Evening Meeting, March \5th, 1878. Mr. J. E. Howe ex- 

 hibited a specimen of Ammonites Nutfieldiensis (a fossil said to have 

 been first found near Godstone) from the Fuller's Earth Pit at 

 Nutfield, and also other fossils from the Lower Chalk and Lower 

 Greensand. 



Mr. Tyndall read a paper on the Beech-tree, in which he treated 

 of its geographical distribution, the various characteristics of its 

 mode of growth, its wood and the uses to which it is put, and other 

 points of interest, referring also to some of the most remarkable 

 Beeches in different parts of England. 



Evening Meeting, April 12, 1878. The President (Mr. Sydney 

 Webb) exhibited a polyanthus having a hollow stem with another 

 stem inside it, and having the appearance externally of a fasciated 

 stem. 



The President then read a paper on "Shell-bearing Animals 

 (MoUusca) recent and fossil." He referred successively to the 

 various classes into which the MoUusca are divided, pointing out 

 the main characteristics of each, viz. the Polyzoa or Bryozoa, the 

 Tunicata or Ascidians, the Conchifera including the shells commonly 

 known as Bivalves, the Brachiopoda or Lamp-shells, the Pteropoda, 

 the Gasteropoda in which he remarked that a considerable develop- 

 ment in structure is apparent, a distinct head and some organs of 

 sense being present; and lastly the Cephalopoda. He alluded in 

 some detail to this class and to the two orders of which it consists, 

 of the first of which the Cuttle-fish may be taken as a representative, 

 and of the second the Nautilus. He described the structure of each 

 of these groups, and also of their respective sub-divisions, the 

 subject being abundantly illustrated by specimens. 



Annual General Meeting, Oct. Wth, 1878. The Annual 

 Report and statement of accounts were read and adopted. The 

 Keport stated that during the summer the following excursions were 



