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July 1st. — Discussion, " On Exposure,' opened by Mr. Hussey. 



Aug. 9th. — Exhibition of negatives and prints taken on the 

 summer excursions. 



Sept. 2ud. — lufoi-mal discussion. 



Oct. 7th. — Lantern exhibition. 



Nov. 4th. — Lantern exhibition. 



Dec. 2nd. — Experiments in Listantaneous Photograpliy by 

 artificial light ; gun-cotton and magnesium powder, by Mr. C. 

 Hussey ; Brock's pyrotechnic mixture, by Mr. Meyer. 



The following is a list of Excursions : — 



April 23rd. — To Hayes and Keston Common. 



May 14th. — To Ockley, conducted by Mr. C. Hussey. 



June 11th. — To Penshurst, conducted by Mr. h. 0. Collycr. 



July 9th. — To Godstone, Crowhurst, and Lingfield. 



Aug. 13th. — To Eeigate, conducted by Mr. W. Brooks. 



The Excursions were very well attended. — K. McKean. 



E.rcursinns. — The first excursion of the season was to the 

 Croydon Corporation well at Addington, and took place at an 

 earlier period of the year than usual. It arose in this way : Mr. 

 Walker, the borough engineer, having some time before very 

 kindly offered to show me over the works then in progress, it 

 occurred to me that the members of the Club might like to join 

 in a visit to a work of considerable importance to the town. 

 But time was pressing, as the adits were nearly completed, and 

 the workmen on the point of being withdrawn ; besides, the 

 volume of water was rapidly increasing and likely to overpower 

 the pumps. Accordingly, Mr. Councillor Morland, the chair- 

 man of the AVater Committee, on being consulted, undertook to 

 receive the members of the Club as soon as the necessary 

 arrangements could be made. The visit came off on Saturday, 

 the 5th of February, between 3 and 5.30, p.m. The afternoon 

 was very fine, and the party, numbering some seventy or eighty 

 persons, was met on the spot by Mr. Morland, Mr. Walker, Mr. 

 Topley and several workmen. The former gentleman then 

 Ijroceeded to give the assembly an account of the general under- 

 taking, while Mr. Walker exhibited a plan and section of the 

 adits and headings with the springs, and explained the pumping 

 arrangements, those for ventilating the headings, and the 

 methods of raising the chalk. Mr. Topley gave an open-air 

 lecture on the geological features of the strata pierced by the 

 well. At the time of the visit the pumps were raising 2,500,000 

 gallons of water daily, which llowed on the surface to Addington 

 village. Having observed all that there was to be seen on the 

 surface, some twenty of the party armed with candles, aud 



