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The third excursion was on the afternoon of Saturday, the 

 14th of July, under the guidance of Mr. K. McKean, along the 

 well-wooded banks of the Basingstoke Canal from Woking to 

 Byfleet. It was a grey, still afternoon, one of the very few fine 

 days of that exceedingly rainy month. The attendance was 

 only 5 persons. 



The fourth field day, a whole day's outing, was arranged by 

 Mr. E. B. Sturge. The route followed was from Edenbridge to 

 Hever Church and Castle, thence across the fields to Chidding- 

 stone, and from there to Penshurst ; a total distance of about 

 7 miles. Permission to visit Hever Castle had been kindly 

 granted by the occupier, Mr. E. Heard. It may well be believed, 

 from the quaint aspect of the precincts, that there has been little 

 alteration from the time when Henry VIII. saw and courted the 

 ill-fated Anne Bulleyn in the garden of her father, Sir Thomas 

 Bulleyn, the owner of the castle. Immediately on leaving 

 Edenbridge Station, and elsewhere in the neighbourhood. 

 Erysimum Cheiranthoides, a plant not met with in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Croydon, was found in abundance by Mr. 

 Mennell, to whom I am indebted for the following botanical 

 notes. In the hedgerows beyond Edenbridge, on the road to 

 Hever, the rarer form of the hawthorn {Cratcegm Oxyacanthoides, 

 Thuill.), with two or three carpels instead of the sohtary un- 

 divided " stone " of the commoner form, was as plentiful as the 

 other. Farther on towards Hever, the deep wet ditches bordering 

 the road were full of one of the water dropworts ((Ena?it/te crocata), 

 a highly poisonous umbelliferous plant, not found near Croydon. 

 In some oat-fields between Hever and Chiddingstone it was 

 noticed that the oats were overrun to an injurious extent by the 

 handsome grass, Bromus secalinus; and the walls of the church- 

 yard at Chiddingstone were plentifully studded with the little 

 wall-spleenwort, Asplenium Ruta-muraria, Drizzling rain fell in 

 the afternoon. The attendance was 20. 



The leadership on the afternoon of Saturday, the 25th of 

 August, was entrusted to Mr. Topley. Proceeding to Oxted our 

 party of 16 was met at the railway- station by Mr. Leveson 

 Gower, of Titsey Park, and Mr. F. C. J. Spurrel, of the West 

 Kent Natural History Club, and taken by them to a building in 

 the grounds of the Manor House, Limpsfield, where, in the 

 absence of Mr. A. M. Bell, the owner, Mr. Gower showed and 

 explained the very fine collection of Palaeolithic implements, 

 chiefly flint, consisting of celts, stone hammers, trimmed flakes, 

 skinning knives, awls, scrapers, flint arrow-heads of various 

 forma, and other articles. These had been collected within a 

 mile or two of Limpsfield. Our kind entertainers then accom- 

 panied us to the gravel-pits and deposits of brick-earth, near 

 which many of the Palseolithic implements had been found, and 



