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Proceedings. li. 
Ordinary Meeting, 20th October, 1880. 
Joun Frower, M.A., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The PresIDENT announced that the Soirée of the Greenwich 
Microscopical and Natural History Society was fixed for 
Wednesday, 8th December. 
He further announced that Mr. William Drummond had 
very kindly offered, through Dr. Carpenter, to present to the 
Club twelve vols. of the Archceologia of the Society of 
Antiquaries, and Catalogue of Broadsides, which had belonged 
to his late brother, Mr. John Drummond, and that the Com- 
mittee proposed to accept this very handsome gift on behalf 
of the Club. 
‘=Dr. CARPENTER called attention to an iron cannon ball, about 
four inches in diameter, which he exhibited, and which was 
dug up in High Street by a man excavating for a sewer. It 
was found at a depth of about a foot and-a-half below the 
surface of the ground. The ball had been roughly cast, with 
a thick rim in relief all round it, and on one side was a deep 
indent produced probably by the ball having been discharged 
from a cannon. He further stated that he had never heard 
that there had been any battle or engagement in Croydon since 
the introduction of gunpowder, and he was therefore unable to 
account for this cannon ball being found where it was. 
Dr. CarPENTER also exhibited and described some teeth 
which had been obtained from the beds of drift gravel in 
and near Croydon. The first of these consisted of eight 
teeth, which were found in the early part of the year in 
cutting a sewer down Scarbrook Hill. They were found in 
two different places in the gravel, and were embedded in a 
portion of the bone of the jaws of the animals to which the 
teeth belonged. He did not see the bones as they were 
thrown away by the workmen who found them. He also 
exhibited and described another tooth which he had found 
about eight years ago in the gravel pit in Fairfield; and two 
more which had been found in gravel by the side of the 
Brighton Road, one near Caterham Junction, and the other 
nearer to Croydon. All were teeth of ruminants, perfectly 
fossilised, and some quite unworn, but the single specimens © 
appeared to have been rolled and to be slightly waterworn. 
The teeth were, in some respects, like those of the rhinoceros, 
but differed somewhat from them, as they also did from those 
of the horse; they were too large for the latter. 
Dr. CaRPENTER further exhibited a small bough of a Sumach 
(Rhus Elegans) now growing in a garden adjoining his own 
at Duppas Hill. This bough had a remarkable tumour upon 
