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G2, Caindcn Sciuarc, London, N.W., 

 November 2ud, 1887. 

 Dear Mr. Bayard, 



I am delighted to hear of tlie proposed action of your 

 Society, for everything that tends to the more thorough organization 

 of rainfall work is naturally gratifying to one who has spent the best 

 yeai-s of his life with that object. I hope tliat all the friends who have 

 helped me for so many years will co-operate with you, as tliey will 

 thereby assist the local work as well as that general organization which 

 has so long been indebted to their assistance. 



Yours very truly, 



G. J. Symons. 



Till' Geoloi/iciil Suh-Commlttt'e. — This Committee has undertaken 

 to prepare a report upon the geological features of the well 

 belonging to the Croydon Corporation at Addington, sunk for the 

 l^urpose of supplementing the supply of water to Croydon, and 

 which it is hoped jnay be submitted to the Club at an early date. 

 Meanwhile one of its members, Mr. Walker, the Borough Engineer, 

 at tlie suggestion of Dr. H. G. Thompson, of the Water Committee, 

 and Mr. Topley, their geological adviser, has kindly communicated 

 to tlie Club an interesting and valuable record of well-gaugings, 

 including two in the Parish of Addington, six in Wickham, one 

 in Selsdon, three in Warlingham, five in the Kenley Valley, and 

 three in the Brighton Eoad Valley. The measurements, all taken 

 on the same day at intervals of a few weeks, comprise the height 

 in feet above Ordnance datum of the mouth of the wells, of the 

 bottom of the wells, and of the level of the surface of the water 

 in the wells. They extend over a period of four years, namely, 

 from October, 1883, to the end of 1887, and when they have been 

 compared with the rainfall of the district for the corresponding 

 period will also form the subject of a communication to the Club. 

 It will, I think, be advisable in future years to publish the results 

 of these well-gaugings in connection with the meteorological 

 statistics. 



Phot(>(jiajiJi!/, — Considering the small number of members — not 

 more than about fifteen — who are interested in this branch of 

 the Club's work, the meetings which have been devoted to 

 Photography were so well attended that a special evening was 

 set apart for tlie purpose, n'z., the first Friday in each month, 

 commencing with last July. The following is a list of Photo, 

 meetings for the past year : — 



Annual Meeting. — Exhibition of lantern-slides, the work of 

 members. 



Jan. 26th. — Photomicrography, by Mr. W. Low Sarjeant. 



Feb. 2brd. — Photomicrography (continued), by Mr. Sarjeant. 

 These two lectures were well illustrated, in fact the entire process 

 was demonstrated in the most complete manner. 



