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for the purpose of getting at the chert-beds of the Lower Green- 
sand for road-metal. To do this a large amount of overlying 
loamy beds has to be removed, sometimes to a thickness of from 
twenty to thirty feet. At one part still higher beds of sand are 
touched, and a small landslip has occurred, through water being 
thrown out from the more permeable beds above by the less 
permeable mass below. Fossils occur in the Lower Greensand 
here, and the chert yields sponge-spicules. 
The section has been described in various papers, or accounts 
of excursions, some of which are noticed in the President’s 
Address. 
4th. May 13th.—To Gatton Hall, conducted by Mr. Pierce (a 
cycling excursion). 
dth. May 22nd (Whit Monday).—To Forest Row and Crow- 
borough, conducted by Mr. J. H. Baldock. 
6th. June 3rd.—Geological Excursion to Redhill and Reigate, 
in conjunction with the Geologists’ Association. The following 
Report, prepared by Miss M. C. Crosfield, is taken from the 
‘ Proceedings’ of the Geologists’ Association :— 
‘The party met at Reigate Station about 2.30 p.m., and first 
visited a sand-pit in the Croydon Road, where the junction of 
the Gault and Lower Greensand is well seen. Phosphatic 
nodules and fragments of wood were found, but no fossils. 
Crossing the Gault on Wray Common, the company walked 
westward by Raglan Road, at the foot of the Upper Greensand 
escarpment, and thence to a pit in Upper Greensand just below 
Colley Hill, where the following section is exposed :—At the 
top—chloritic marl, 7 ft. 6 in. ; cherty band, 6in. ; hearthstone, 
6 ft.; cherty band, 6 in.; hearthstone, 5 to 6 ft.; fire- and 
building-stone, 6 ft. Sponge spicules occur abundantly in the 
cherty bands. Two small faults were distinctly visible. In the 
‘ Horseshoe’ quarry (450 ft. O.D.) adjoining, Mr. George Taylor, 
on whose property the Association was now assembled, met the 
party. He stated that the tunnels recently discovered in the 
hill were two hundred years old. From borings made for water 
he found that the thickness of the Upper Greensand here was 
about 55 ft. After a vote of thanks had been passed to Mr. 
Taylor, the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen described the Holocene 
deposit in the same quarry. It is 4 ft. thick, and yielded 
Bulimus montanus, Helicigona arbustorum, and Clausilia rolphii, 
no longer extant there. Terebratulina gracilis from the Middle 
Chalk, and an abnormal facetted nodule (hydrated MnO), pro- 
bably from the Upper Greensand, occurred. The abundance of 
