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they would naturally remain where they had been deposited^ 

 Fossil wood in considerable quantity was in fact found in this 

 bed. All these beds belonged to the series known as the 

 Woolwich Beds. Immediately over the clay came the Oldhaven 

 bed, which was in two divisions, first a thick bed of whitish 

 sand, which might be seen in the Addiscombe-road where the line 

 crossed, and at the base of that the shell rock. This shell rock 

 was some seven feet thick, made up entirely of oysters and 

 other shells. The shell rock was an exceedingly interesting 

 bed. It was so hard that the contractor was now blasting it 

 with powder. These beds appear to have undergone great 

 denudation from the action of water, and chiefly on the tops 

 of our hills we find large deposits of water-worn pebbles also 

 belono'ing to the Oldhaven series. Over the Oldhaven beds 

 came the London clay, but a local clay lay over the pebbles 

 in some part. A peculiar thing about the local clay was the 

 large blocks of stone that occurred in it, solid masses of sand 

 stone. This clay was as full as it could be of oysters. In 

 concluding his remarks, Mr. Flower announced that he hoped 

 to put all the objects he had collected at Park Hill at the 

 disposal of the club if they formed their collection. These 

 objects ought not, he considered, to be kept in private collec- 

 tions if there existed any public collection to which they could 

 be contributed. 



After some remarks from Dr. Carpenter, 



Mr. Henry Turner remarked that, with regard to the 

 Thanet sand, he had not been able hitherto to find anything at 

 all more than the sand itself. In the bed immediately over- 

 lying it, the base of the bed was really of a brown colour, but 

 it c^raduated in the course of two or three feet into the green 

 character which Mr. Flower had remarked upon. A remark- 

 able thing about this brown bed was that it contained plant 

 remains in a condition that one might expect plants would be 

 in that were deposited in sand like that. He (Mr. Turner) 

 obtained some leaves, but immediately they were handled they 

 fell to pieces, and were lost. He also found a seed in the 

 brown bed, very much the size of a pea, and very much like it 

 in shape. He had also found in another section the leaves 

 now exhibited. One of the teeth he had found he had taken 

 to Kensington, and found it to be the tooth of a fish con- 

 siderably differing from a shark. 



Mr. Klaassen and Mr. Chisholm also took part in the 

 discussion, and the latter gentleman exhibited some diagrams 

 to elucidate the subject. 



At the conclusion of the discussion a vote of thanks was 

 passed to Mr. Flower. 



The lecture was illustrated by the exhibition of numerous 



