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at some future time with a geological map of Croydon and its neigh 

 bourhood, it is evident the Club could not have added a more efficient 

 member to our committee to accomplish this work, for no one can be 

 more intimately acquainted with the geological details of Croydon 

 -and its neighbourhood than the engineer and surveyor of the district. 

 The sub-committee has sustained a great loss in the death oi 

 Mr. John Flower, M.A., F.R.S., treasurer of the Club, who took 

 much interest in the geology of the district, and especially in the 

 progress of the new railway cutting, hereafter mentioned. 



At the meeting of the various sub-committees, held in the Club- 

 rooms on i8th October, 1882, Mr. H. T. Mennell presiding, it was 

 considered desirable that the various sub-committees should appoint 

 an hon. sec. to their respective sections. This was agreed to, and Mr. 

 H. M. Klaassen, F.G.S., was asked to be the first secretary to tbs 

 Geological committee, which position he has accepted. 



The Club is aware that this sub-committee has important work on 

 hand, and work which will engage their attention for some time to 

 come, namely, collecting the geological strata of the beds in the 

 cuttings and tunnels of the new railway between Coombe Road and 

 the Upper Addiscombe Road. Though railway cuttings abound m 

 the neighbourhood of Croydon, a glance at a geological map will 

 show that none of them, in geological interest, equal those which 

 are now being made in the Croydon Section of the Woodside, Oxted, 

 and East Grinstead Railway. A greater length of the Woolwich 

 and Reading Beds will be cut through here than can be seen in any 

 part of the Kingdom. We watch the progress of the railway 

 .carefully, and keep pace with the work on the line. Our work is 

 daily labour, healthy and pleasant it is, and we ill deserve the pity 

 which friends so readily bestow upon us after emerging from clay 

 tunnels. The lavender-coloured band of the Woolwich and Reading 

 Beds in the south cuttings dips into the tunnel ; its direction has 

 to be traced, and we mean to follow it. 



The Hon. Sec. has devoted much attention to the excavations, 

 visiting them at frequent intervals. The information thus obtained 

 is valuable from its bearing upon certain questions of much interest 

 regarding the classification of the Lower Tertiaries. Full details 

 will be laid before the Club at a future time. 



Signed, Alfred Carpenter. 

 James Chisholm. 

 William Topley. 

 H. Turner. 

 Thos. Walker. 

 H. M. Klaassen, Hon. Sec. 



The President then moved the adoption of the reports. 

 He remarked that they were so full that but little was left for 

 him to speak about. He congratulated the members on the 

 favourable nature of the reports, and on the increase of the 

 membership. Including the five just elected there had been 

 17 new members received during the year. Of the five 

 members, to whose death allusion was made in the report, 

 Mr. W. Reeves Cooper was one of the earliest members of the 



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