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gravel in its upper part above Merstham contains fragments of 
hard beds of the Lower Greensand, so that ‘this Drift was 
deposited before the strata beyond the [Chalk] escarpment had 
been removed, and when the valley was prolonged . . . into 
the Wealden area.”’ 
Dr. A. Irvine also took up the subject of ‘‘ The Plateau-gravels 
of East Berks and West Surrey,’’* reviewing some of Sir J. 
Prestwich’s conclusions. He alludes to the mass of coarse 
gravel of Hungry Hills, Aldershot, as an illustration of the 
great amount of Upper Chalk that must have been worn away 
to furnish the flints, and concludes that the Plateau-gravels are 
of fluviatile origin and of Pliocene age. 
In a paper on Pleistocene Mollusca + B. B. Woopwarp notices 
two Surrey localities of fossiliferous Alluvium, Kew and Black- 
friars (pp. 340, 342). 
Our member H. M. Kuaassen contributed a paper on “ The 
Pebbly and Sandy Beds overlying the Woolwich and Reading 
Series on and near the Addington Hills,’ in which he recorded 
the section shown by the excavations for a sewer from the wind- 
mill in Shirley Road to near the top of the hills, for a distance 
of 1636 ft. The new sections showed that the pebbles were 
underlain by sand, beneath which come the Woolwich and 
Reading Beds, consisting of clays over pebbles and sand. The | 
section of a cutting for a sewer in Oaks Road is also recorded. 
An account of the excavations for the reservoir by Dr. G. J. 
Hinne is included: these were wholly in the Blackheath pebble- 
beds, in which some pebbles of quartzite were the only stones 
found other than those of flint. 
In this year there was an epidemic of notes on the Denudation 
and Elevation of the Weald, in the pages of the ‘ Geological 
Magazine,’§ by H. W. Moncxron, Dr. A. Irvine (three), and Sir 
J. Prestwics. Though of a general nature they are of Surrey 
interest, and the second refers to the sands of Chipstead, &e. I 
may claim some credit for not having been infected, the subject 
being one in which I am somewhat interested. 
Dr. J. G. Garson and G. F. Lawrence have noticed ‘“ Skulls 
dredged from the Thames in the neighbourhood of Kew” and 
“the Geological Position of the Skulls,’’|| but whether the 
fifteen skulls belong to Surrey or to Middlesex, or to both 
counties, is a moot point. They seem to belong to the dolicho- 
cephalic race, who inhabited the country before ‘‘the brachy- 
cephalic or Celtic race usually associated with the Bronze period.” 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlvi, pp. 557-564. 
+ Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xi, no. 8, pp. 335-388. 
¢ Ibid., pp. 464-472. 
§ Dec. iii, vol. vii, pp. 395-397 ; 403-409 ; 479, 480; 575, 576, 
|| Journ. Anthrop. Inst. 
