exlvi Proceedings. 
snowballing incident being much applauded, as indeed their 
excellence deserved. 
The stage was adorned with flowers and foliage plants from 
Mr. P. Crowley’s conservatories, and Mr. H. M. Carter sent 
some water-colour sketches, which were hung in the Large Hall. 
A good selection of music was given during the evening, and 
altogether the members may be congratulated on so satisfactory 
an issue.—From ‘ Croydon Advertiser.’ 
At the general meeting on December 21st Dr. Franklin Parsons 
exhibited some fine specimens of ammonites, hamites, &c., ob- 
tained by him from the gault at Folkestone. 
Mr. J. Watson Slack moved, and Mr. Whitaker seconded, a 
resolution expressing the opinion that the contemplated removal 
of the Whitgift Hospital would be a deplorable mistake, and 
praying the Croydon County Council to consider other steps to 
mitigate the difficulties of traffic at the spot in question, and 
thereby save a most valuable piece of ancient architecture. The 
resolution received the warm support of the President, Mr. 
Baldwin Latham, and other members present, and on being put 
to the vote was carried unanimously in a well-attended meeting. 
It was also resolved to send an offer of co-operation, on behalf 
of the Club, to other societies having the preservation of ancient 
buildings at heart. 
The President then called upon Mr. Whitaker, F.R.S., late of 
the Geological Survey, to read his paper on a “ Drift Deposit 
with Bones at Carshalton.” The plot of land acquired for 
the disposal of sewage at Carshalton, though mapped by the 
Geological Survey as London Clay, had unexpectedly—and 
fortunately for the District Council—been found to consist 
superficially of sand, with bands of loam running through it. 
This was the drift (or loose deposit carried down by streams and 
spread over the original surface of the ground), and was of a 
character differing from that generally found in the neighbour- 
hood, though when traced nearer to the Wandle the usual gravelly 
structure was found. There had been several excavations cutting 
through these sandy beds down into the London Clay beneath. 
Under fifteen feet was found a broken up, muddy deposit, such 
as at one time might have formed the bottom of a pond. In 
this deposit the bones to be described were found. Mr. Whitaker 
eulogised the public spirit of the Carshalton authorities in care- 
fully preserving all the remains discovered. Mr. Newton, F.R.S., 
of Jermyn Street Museum, then described the bones in detail. 
The most important of these was the skull of a rhinoceros, a two- 
horned species, probably that known as the woolly rhinoceros 
(R. tichorhinus). There were also fore and hind bones and a rib 
of this beast. There were found, in addition, a small portion of 
