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village of West Hoathly, which stands on a narrow and lofty 
ridge, commanding fine views northwards over the Medway 
valley, and southwards over that of the Sussex Ouse. A halt 
was made to examine the church, which contains some Norman 
work, a fine oak chancel roof, and some cast-iron memorial 
slabs—relics of the old Sussex iron industry. The route thence 
lay up and down a succession of ridges divided by steep wooded 
and rocky valleys, the bottoms of which were occupied by ponds, 
probably constructed to furnish water power to the old iron- 
works. At Philpotts, a large quarry exhibited an interesting 
section showing the junction of the Lower Tunbridge Wells 
Sandstone with the overlying East Grinstead Clay. The former 
bed is a massive sandstone, traversed by veins of spar; in its 
upper part is a bed of conglomerate, a consolidated pebble beach 
containing pebbles of dark quartzite derived from some rock far 
older than any exposed on the surface in this part of England. 
In this bed also some bones and teeth of reptiles and fishes 
were found. Above the conglomerate is a sandy layer showing 
distinct ripple marks formed on an old shore. In another quarry, 
by Wakehurst, many freshwater shells and other fossils were 
found in the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sandstone.” 
On June 26th there was an excursion to Weybridge, starting 
from Chertsey Bridge and going down the Thames to Walton 
Bridge. The conductor was Mr. Lincoln. The results were 
rather disappointing, as only three members turned up, and the 
photographic results were small. Mr. Lincoln writes :—‘* My 
object in suggesting an excursion into that neighbourhood was 
that it gave the Club an opportunity of getting a class of picture 
different to that which is obtainable near Croydon; but I find 
from experience that river pictures are apt to be disappointing, 
unless a good deal of time and trouble are spent on them.” 
The distance in this case appears to have militated against 
the success of the expedition. 
On July 10th, a Saturday afternoon excursion was conducted 
by Mr. Goodman. A fair number of members and friends took 
train to Coulsdon Station, where we were met by Mr. Goodman. 
The route taken was over Farthing Down on the north side of 
which Spirea filipendula was growing in small clumps in fair 
abundance and in flower. As Mr. Mennell has pointed out to me, 
S. filipendula, which is a distinctly chalk species, must not be 
confounded with S. ulmaria, the meadow-sweet, which, as 
everyone knows, is a moisture-loving plant. We then descended 
a valley, and, ascending again, made our way to Coulsdon, 
visiting the church, of which some photographs were taken, and 
so on into the Caterham Valley, from whence we again ascended 
