CXxvi Proceedings. 
British birds there are two fine smews in the western aviary, 
and three pratincoles in the insect house. (J. H. Drage.) : 
May 2nd.—Photographic excursion to Chipstead, conducted 
by Mr. E. J. Platts. Mr. R. Saunders, of Chipstead, kindly 
invited the members to take tea with him. 
May 9th.—An excursion, conducted by Mr. Baldock, and 
attended by some twenty members, proceeded to the beautiful 
gardens at Wallington, by the kind permission of Mr. Smee. 
These gardens are well known in connection with the book 
entitled ‘My Garden,’ published and profusely illustrated by the 
late Mr. Alfred Smee, who was assisted by his son, the present 
owner. ‘The party was conducted througlt all the principal 
houses, and explanations given of some of the most interesting 
plants, ferns, orchids, &c., after which the visitors were left to 
roam about and admire the many and peculiar beauties to be 
found there, among them an artesian well, which supplied much 
of the water, with which the place abounds, and which had 
never been known to run_dry. The weather was dull and 
- windy, nevertheless some fairly good photographs, in memoriam, 
were obtained. (J. H. Baldock.) 
May 25th.—On Whit Monday a whole-day excursion was made, 
under the guidance of Dr. Parsons, to West Hoathly, and was 
well attended, being favoured by fine weather. Arriving at West 
Hoathly Station about eleven, the party walked through woods 
and meadows to Gravetye, the residence of Mr. W. Robinson, the 
well-known writer on horticulture. Gravetye is a picturesque 
Elizabethan mansion, built by a Sussex ironmaster of the six- 
teenth century, and standing in a garden stocked with interesting 
herbaceous plants and shrubs. The surrounding fields are also 
planted with various kinds of narcissus and other bulbs, which 
flower among the grass. After inspecting the gardens, the 
party went on to Rockhurst. In the grounds of this estate is a 
noteworthy line of rocks, forming an escarpment on the edge 
of a steep wooded valley. The rock is a thick-bedded massive 
sandstone, the Lower Tunbridge Wells Sandstone, belonging to 
the Wealden series, resting on a somewhat softer layer. By 
weathering and widening of the joints some of the masses have 
become more or less completely detached; the most remarkable 
of these masses, called, from its shape, ‘‘ Great upon Little,” is 
a cubical mass of rock, fifteen feet high and sixty feet in cireum- 
ference, poised upon a narrow portion or stalk only twenty feet 
in circumference. This narrow base consists of a softer bed of 
sandstone, the more rapid weathering of which, as compared 
with the harder rock above, has given the mass its stalked form, 
