Proceedings. —- lvii 
GEoLoGyY. 
As a geologist I am bound to turn at last to my own subject, 
to supplement my notes of last year, and to add notes of what 
has been done for Surrey geology during that year. 
18938. 
W. Gutrorp, in a paper entitled “ Ave there Coalfields in 
Surrey?’’* gave a general account of the subject of the under- 
ground range of old rocks in the South-east of England, and 
concluded that the ‘‘line of probable Coalfields passes in Surrey 
rather north of the escarpment of the North Downs,” and that 
the title-question ‘‘ will receive an affirmative answer.” 
1898. 
Presumably it is our member Mr. E. A. Martin who, in 
‘Norwood and Croydon Notes,’t gives a short account of 
sections in sewer-cuttings, &e., at Thornton Heath, showing 
Woolwich Beds, Oldhaven Beds, and Gravel. 
1900. 
BE. A. Martin, in a note on «Westow Hill Gravels,’”{ alludes 
to the extension of the high-level gravel of Upper Norwood, as 
shown by excavations for electric wires. He has clearly done 
the right thing in recording the nature and position of the 
various deposits along a very temporary section. 
The title ‘‘Coal Mines under Surrey,” by the same author, § 
reminds one of the chapter on ‘ Snakes in Ireland,” the contents 
of which are simply ‘‘ There are none.” The author of course 
alludes to the possibility of there being Coal Measures in the 
position named, a subject which I have discussed so often that 
T hesitate to start it again, though always glad to see the question 
brought forward. First find your Coal, then mine it, may be 
taken as a new version of an old proverb. ’ 
The subject of “ Underground Geology in the South-east of 
England” || was taken as the chief subject of my Presidential 
Address to the Geological Society; but, though reference is made 
therein to places in Surrey, the remarks are only general. 
G. W. Lampiuen’s “ Note on the Age of the English Wealden 
Series’? is of a general nature, but affects Surrey. He main- 
* Proc. Holmesdale Nat. Hist. Club for 1890-9, pp. 42-7. 
+ Science Gossip, n. ser., vol, v, p- 158. 
+ Ibid., vol. vii, p. 124. 
§ Surrey Mag., vol. 2, October, pp. 245-6. 
\| Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lvi, pp. lxxi, &c. ». 
{| Geol. Mag., dec. iv, vol. vii, pp- 443-5. 
