Proceedings. ix 
which those rivers now flow have to a-large extent been ex- 
cavated since.” 
An important contribution to the literature of one of our chief 
formations was given by Prof. Boutcer and T. Letenton in their 
paper ‘On the Lower Greensand. Area . . . between Wotton 
and Dorking,’’* m which they advocate the extension of the 
Folkestone Beds, at the expense of the Hythe Beds, southward 
to the great east and west ‘ Rookery Fault.” The Rookery 
section is described and seven new sections. As itis allowed that 
‘it is difficult, in words, to express the difference between the 
Hythe and Folkestone Beds of this district,” we need not be 
surprised that a reading adopted by the Geological Survey many 
years ago does not now commend itself to everybody, especially 
as so much fresh information is to hand. The classification 
of the Bargate Stone is discussed. I am by no means ready 
to join in the idea of the authors that they will be ‘‘ charged 
with presumption in attempting to correlate beds upon lithological 
evidence only.” It is very good evidence, when rightly used, 
especially when there is no other. ‘ 
An account of an ‘Excursion to Farnham’’+ deals with 
Gravels, Gault, Folkestone Beds, and flint implements; whilst 
one of an “ Excursion to Dorking’’{ refers to the subject of the 
paper last noticed. 
T. Leienton also described an ‘‘ Excursion to Abinger,’’§ 
noticing gravel and various sections in the Lower Greensand of 
Leith Hill. ; 
The Report of the Royal Commission on the Water Supply of 
the Metropolis, with its bulky Minutes of Evidence and Appen- 
dices, contains much matter relating to Surrey, for the analysis 
of which more time would be needed than I can at present 
dispose of. || 
1894. 
In his Presidential Address to the Geological Society, W. H. 
Houp.uezston refers to the question of ‘‘ Coal in the South-east of 
England,’ concluding that, if ‘a coal-basin exists within hail of 
the metropolis, it is quite as likely to be found between Croydon 
and Reigate as anywhere else. If the Board of Trade could be 
persuaded to bore at suitable intervals along a line connecting 
those two towns, geological science would certainly be a gainer, 
and Surrey as well as Kent might be proved to have its coal- 
field.” I should like to see some one suggesting such a course 
* Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xiii, pt. 1, pp. 4-16. 
+ Ibid., pt. 3, pp. 74-81. 
t Ibid., pt. 5, pp. 140, 141. 
§ Ibid., pp. 163-167. 
|| Fol. Lond. 
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