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lantern-slides of Italian Cathedrals and of the Halls of the City 
Companies; Mr. Hoole’s lantern-lecture on the Norfolk Broads and 
the Channel Islands; the Exhibition of Geological lantern-slides, lent 
by the British Association, and described by the President; and Mr. 
Crowley’s exhibition of lantern-slides of places in Italy, including 
some striking views of Vesuvius and of Pompeii. 
At the Soirée a good collection of over eighty pictures was shown. 
Mr. Saville-Kent showed a collection of beautiful lantern-slides in 
natural colours, made by Mr. Sanger-Shepherd’s new system of 
trichromatic photography. 
A collection of members’ slides was also shown.—H. Pierce, Hon. Sec. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SuB-CoMMITTEE. 
The Sub-Committee continue to make notes upon Folk-lore and 
kindred subjects, which may be regarded as belonging to the locality. 
Four of these are given herewith; and it is to be hoped that members 
and their friends will bring before my notice any points of interest 
they may observe connected with our subject—such, for instance, as 
the survival of ancient customs, old superstitions and sayings, the use 
of primitive implements and appliances, as well as authentic records 
of prehistoric stone and flint implements. 
During the year several exhibits have been made at the ordinary 
meetings, of objects of general Hthnographical interest, and two papers 
have been read, one on Primitive Commerce and the Evolution of 
Coinage, and the other on the Evolution of Form and Design in Art.— 
Ep. Lovert, Hon. Sec. 
Implementiferous Gravels of Surrey.—Although worked flints of 
undoubted human chipping have been found in the marly gravel beds 
of Wandsworth, and also in those of Mitcham, I have never yet 
succeeded in finding even the slightest indication of such work in our 
Croydon “Fairfield” Gravels. The patchy gravel beds in the Brighton 
Road, too, which are probably of the same age, have, so far as I am 
aware, yielded no evidence of the work of Stone-age Man. I am 
inclined to think that these gravels are of greater age than the gravels » 
of Wandsworth and Mitcham. As regards the Purley Gravels, in or 
near to which the mammoth tusks were found, I could not trace, nor 
have I heard of any trace of flints bearing evidence of human workman- 
ship being observed there.—Epwarp Lovett. 
During the last two or three years a considerable number of flint 
implements and flakes have been found in part of Beddington Park ; 
in form and in texture of the flint they much resemble specimens from 
the Thames at Wandsworth, Putney, and Mortlake; the flint is in 
most cases clear, translucent, and brownish, and shows no trace of 
patina discolouration or decomposition on the surface, thus differing 
much from specimens from the South Downs, in which, while the 
centre is of black opaque flints, the surface to a depth of one-sixteenth 
of an inch or so is white, apparently caused by a dissolving away of 
soluble portions of the silica, as the white portion shows a porous 
structure. The Beddington flints are found in a plantation, extending 
down to the Wandle, and on sloping ground close to springs. The 
situation is exactly such as would be chosen by a primitive people for 
a camp or settlement. The site has always formed part of the parks, 
