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been the case with the collection made for the Soirées, but were all in 
excellent condition. A week later a night frost, not of a very severe 
character, cut off the more tender species; but on the 24th November 
forty-three species were still in flower in the same garden. 
On Christmas Day Dr. H. Franklin Parsons made a list of twenty- 
five plants in flower in his garden, to which Mr. Mennell was able to 
add a dozen additional species. 
On the same day the honey-bees were flying briskly. 
At Haslemere in Surrey—at a greater elevation than at Croydon, 
but on warmer soil—Mr. T. P. Newman made a list of no less than 
forty-seven plants in flower in his garden on Christmas Day, and adds 
that a big bowl of roses was cut on that day. 
Of wild flowers, Mr. J. B. Crosfield informs us that on Christmas 
Day he gathered, on Leith Hill and neighbourhood, in good flower, 
. Erica tetralix, H. cinerea, Stellaria holostea and graminea, Lychnis 
diurna, Ulex nanus, R. repens; and on January 5th, Hieraciwm 
ptlosella. The knapweed (Centawrea Jacea) was found in good flower 
on January 5th, 1901, by Dr. H. F. Parsons. 
The President of the Club, Mr. James Epps, F.L.S., reports that 
he has fruited his cacao trees at Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, which 
on December 23rd had on them both a pod and blossoms. 
GEOLOGICAL CoMMITTEE. 
The Geological Committee has met eight times during the year, 
and a like number of sectional meetings have been held. The average 
number of members present at the sectional meetings has been seven. 
Four excursions have been held, as follows :— 
April 21st.—The Section, under the leadership of Dr. H. Franklin 
Parsons, F.G.S., made an excursion to the Chalk heaps at Hooley 
for the purpose of collecting fossils. About a dozen members attended. 
The weather being very favourable, a considerable number of fossils 
were secured, consisting principally of Micrasters, Terebratule, and 
Ventriculites. 
June 12th.—The Section, Reabomne about twenty, met at Waddon 
station, and walked to Mr. H. C. Collyer’s, Beddington, for the pur- 
pose of seeing the place in his garden where neolithic flakes and 
implements had been found. On the way to Beddington a stoppage 
was made to examine the Thanet Sand exposed in a pit on the right- 
hand side of the road. At Mr. Collyer’s, the position of the neolithic 
factory was pointed out on the banks of the Wandle, and numerous 
flakes and a small number of neolithic implements were shown. A 
palzolithic implement (?) was also shown. Mr. Collyer subsequently 
showed the members his large collection of Surrey and other archzo- 
logical objects, and entertained the members to tea. 
July 10th.—The Section paid a visit to the Corporation’s new well 
in Stroud Green Road, under the guidance of the President and Mr. 
Thos. Walker, C.E. The spoil heaps, consisting of Woolwich Shell 
Bed (Ostrea), were examined, and various specimens secured. About 
fifteen members attended. 
September 29th.—By the kind permission of the Town Clerk the 
Section paid a visit to the Beddington Sewage Farm to examine the 
rocks discovered in the foundations of works connected with the 
pumping station. The party, numbering about twenty, under the 
