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point in the valley of the Ouse where it cuts its way through the 
South Downs. Rooms in the towers of the keep and barbican 
are used as a museum, and contain a fair collection of local pre- 
historic, Roman, and medieval antiquities. The town of Lewes 
with its steep irregular streets is picturesque, but contains few 
buildings of interest. The party then walked to the downs on 
the south-east of the town. These are covered with a charac- 
teristic chalk flora, but the vegetation was parched and brown 
owing to the prolonged drought, and attention was turned to a 
series of chalk-pits. The chalk here has undergone a slight 
upheaval in a direction contrary to its general dip in the South 
Downs (viz. southwards from the Weald), so that while the 
- Upper Chalk is exposed in the pits nearer to Lewes, the Lower 
Chalk is worked in those more to the south, and in one pit both 
Upper and Lower Chalk are seen; the contrast between the 
white Upper Chalk, with its regular bands of flints, and the grey 
Lower Chalk, almost devoid of flints, being very distinct. Some 
photographs of these sections were taken. In the Upper Chalk 
only a few fragments of Inoceramus were found, but the Lower 
Chalk yielded other fossils, among them being a large ammonite 
(2 A. sussewiensis), of which a fine specimen twelve inches in 
diameter was obtained. On the return to Lewes a short détour 
was made to visit the brackish marshes by the tidal river Ouse, 
where several plants characteristic of such localities were found, 
e.g., Ranunculus hirsutus, Aster Tripolium, Zannichellia pedicellata, 
and iHnteromorpha intestinalis. The grayling butterfly and the 
burnet moth were observed on the chalk downs. (Dr. H. F. 
Parsons.) 
July 27th—Half-day Photographic excursion to Lingfield 
(conductor, Mr. Wild). The members who joined this excursion 
found enough to occupy the comparatively short time at their 
disposal in the picturesque cottages of this and the adjoining 
village of Street, and the church. Some time was spent in the 
interior of the latter, where photographs of the monumental tombs 
of the Earls of Cobham, and the east end generally, with lectern, 
on which is an old chained Bible, were obtained. Tea at one of 
the village inns agreeably closed the afternoon’s proceedings. 
August 5th—Whole-day excursion to Lingfield for Holtye 
Common and Cowden (conductor, W. Murton Holmes). On 
arriving at Lingfield, the party proceeded to the church, over 
which they were kindly shown by Mr. Sydney Austin, of Ling- 
field. This church, which was rebuilt in 1461, contains some 
fine brasses and monuments to the memory of the Cobham family. 
There also are exhibited a Bible and two prayer-bools in black 
letter, with chains attached. There are some quaint and finely- 
