Proceedings. clxv 
“On Saturday, September 10th, a visit to the old Roman villa at 
Darenth was proposed by Mr. J. H. Baldock, and although some 
five or six members had expressed their intention of joining, 
when the time came the great heat then prevailing deterred 
them, so that the conductor had it all to himself. As a com- 
pensation, however, he succeeded in obtaining a dozen capital 
photographs of the most interesting portions of the villa.”’ 
Mr. G. W. Moore has furnished me with particulars of the 
fungus hunt which he conducted on September 17th. The foray was 
practically bootless, for the long-continued dry weather had ren- 
dered the places examined too dry for anything ofa living fungus 
nature to be found, save one specimen of the common edible 
mushroom. ‘The excursion was through Wickham Wood. 
On September 20th the first monthly meeting was held after 
the holidays. As usual, no paper was read, but members ex- 
hibited and explained objects of interest. Mr. Murton Holmes 
showed fossils from the sponge gravel of the Lower Greensand 
at Farringdon in Berkshire. Dr. Parsons showed fossils from 
the Red Chalk at Hunstanton. Mr. J. W. Helps sent a peculiar 
fungoid growth which had been found attached to a piece of 
cotton waste under a warm bath at the Croydon gas-works at 
Waddon. Mr. Lovett, as usual, had an interesting series from 
his anthropological and natural history collection, namely, a 
bone bark-peeler from Normandy; also bolas-stones from Argen- 
tine Republic; hippo-tusk charm from Africa, also one from 
New Guinea made of a boar’s tusk; and shell money from 
Admiralty Island. 
On October 18th Mr. Whitaker gave an address on ‘“ Changes 
on the Coast.” The ‘Croydon Chronicle’ gave a long account 
of this and the subsequent discussion, which, having been revised 
by Mr. Whitaker himself, will, I hope, appear in the ‘ Trans- 
actions.’ 
Mr. Stanley, who was our delegate to the British Association 
in Bristol, read a short report, and handed in a schedule from 
the Committee appointed to organize an Ethnographical Survey 
of the United Kingdom. 
On November 15th Mr. Lovett gave a lecture on Primeval Man 
and his modern representatives, illustrated by many excellent 
lantern views. As it was impracticable to take any notes of this 
lecture at the time, and as Mr. Lovett himself used none, the 
account which I can give must necessarily be a meagre one. 
Many flint implements were shown, both neolithic and paleo- 
lithic, some of the arrow-heads being very finely finished. Some 
