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baronial hall, a very fine room, is now the kitchen. There is 

 a fine old staircase, and some of the rooms on the ground- 

 floor have been converted into very excellent dining and 

 drawing-rooms. The present tenant is a Mr. Heard, who 

 courteously conveyed the members over portions of the 

 inhabited part of the house, and pointed out the path across 

 the fields to Chiddingstone. 



Arrived at Chiddingstone, the members who left early were 

 joined by those from Kedhill and Reigate, who left in the 

 afternoon, and also by the members of the Tunbridge Wells 

 Society. The Chidding-stone was visited ; it lies close to the 

 hotel, and is in fact an outlying part of the Hastings rocks 

 which extend through portions of Kent and Sussex for many 

 miles ; it is one of the most northern portions of the rock. 

 Chiddingstone Church was inspected, but there was nothing 

 in connection with it calling for special remark. Some fine 

 specimens were gathered of the Butterfly Orchis. Between 

 fifty and sixty ladies and gentlemen were present, twenty-two 

 of whom came in connection with the Holmesdale Club ; the 

 rest were from Tunbridge Wells. 



The excursion to Gomshall on June 25th was devoted to 

 the collection of flowers, and a large number were named and 

 exhibited at the Museum in the evening. Two abnormal 

 specimens of the Man Orchis (Aceras anthropo})hora) were 

 gathered ; one of these had the lip undivided ; in the other 

 the segments of the lip were unusually narrow, and there was 

 a remarkable increase of parts in several of the flowers. 



Members of the Tunbridge Wells Natural History and 

 Antiquarian Society joined in the excursion to Eeigate HiU 

 on July 9th. Most of the Orchises were over, having lasted 

 but a short time, owing to the drought ; a few plants only of 

 the Bee Orchis were still in bloom. 



On September 3rd members went by train to Warlingham 

 Station, thence up the steep side of the hill from the Caterham 

 Valley. On arrival at the top, looking west to the opposite 

 side of the valley, rich fields of grass, with timber and park- 

 like grounds were observed. Level table-land was traversed 

 after passing through Warlingham Village, along a road and 



