xcviii. Proceedings. 



Ordinary Meeting i^th February, 1882. 



Philip Crowley, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected 

 members: — Mr. H. J. Houghton, Mr. Arthur J. Norris, Mr. 

 Wm. J. Robinson, and Mr. E. J. Winter Wood. 



The following donations were announced : — Proces verbal, 

 Belgian Microscopical Society ; Science Gossip for February ; 

 Notes on the British Stalk-eyed Crustacea by Mr. Edward 

 Lovett ; Transactions of the Norwich and Norfolk Naturalists' 

 Society ; Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. 



The President also announced that Mr. Horniman had 

 been kind enough to send an invitation for the Members of the 

 Club to pay a second visit to his Museum at Forest Hill upon 

 the afternoon of Saturday, the 4th March, and that lady friends 

 would be welcome. 



The President gave notice that at the next meeting of the 

 Club he would move as follows: — "That the day for the 

 " Ordinary Meetings of the Club be, and it is hereby changed 

 " from the third Wednesday to the second Wednesday in the 

 " month." 



Mr. Flower then delivered an address* upon the geology of 

 Croydon as illustrated in the railway cuttings at Park Hill. 

 In the course of his remarks, he said that matters of consider- 

 able interest had come to light during the progress of the 

 railway works. Those who were specially interested in 

 geology had an opportunity not often met with, while those 

 who were not specially interested could learn something as to 

 the past history of the land on which the town stood, and on 

 which they walked. To begin with the chalk, which formed 

 really the basis or bottom of all the Croydon district, the first 

 thin<^ to do was to ascertain what was the position of the chalk 

 bed, and what was its nature. The chalk was a hard white 

 rock, and it had been deposited in the open sea, no doubt, and 

 afterwards raised to the surface. It was from 550 to 1,000 feet 

 thick, and formed a compact floor on which the tertiary beds, 

 which made up our soil, rested. The bottom bed of Park-hill 

 was chalk, then came a bed of Thanet sand. The green sand 

 bed lay immediately over it, above that came a thick bed of 

 clay, over that a thick bed of sand, which had at its bottom the 

 shell rock. At the top was a pebble bed in some places, but in 

 other places the pebble bed was resting, not on the sand, but on 

 the clay. Proceeding to give particulars of the various beds, 



• Owing to the lamented death of Mr. Flower, this address which would, 

 in his hands, have formed a valuable addition to our Transactions, can now 

 only be very imperfectly summarised. — Editor. 



