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euidance of the President, W. Whitaker, F.R.S., included the Mayor, 
Messrs. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., G. J. Hinde, F.R.S., Councillor 
Noakes, Dr. H. Franklin Parsons, Mr. G. Clinch, and some members 
of the Whitgift Natural History Society. The President explained 
that after sinking about seventeen feet in gravel, a hard rock had been 
_ met with which was quite new to the neighbourhood of Croydon. 
From the fossil contents, which were all freshwater species, including 
Paludina, Unio, &c., the rock showed a change of conditions from 
the underlying shell bed of the Woolwich and Reading series, which 
contained the usual brackish water fauna—Ostrea, Cyrena, &e. Con- 
siderable interest was shown by the party in collecting fossils, which 
were exceeding difficult to extricate, owing to the very hard nature of 
the rock, but a fair collection was made, including some remains of 
wood and bones. 
A: considerable number of geological specimens have been contri- 
buted to the Club’s Museum during the year by members of the 
Section, and the Museum now contains a good representative collection 
of the different rocks in Surrey and the west of Kent. 
Interesting sections have been exposed during the year at Bedding- 
ton Sewage Farm, showing the Woolwich and Reading Beds; at Park 
Hill, showing all the beds from the Upper Chalk to the top of the 
Oldhaven Beds, inclusive; and at the Stroud Green Road Corporation 
Well, from the Thanet Sand to the London Clay. Good sections of 
Gravel have been exposed in the Brighton Road and at Thornton Heath. 
The following five photographs of sections have been sent to the 
British Association Committee on geological photographs :—Addis- 
combe Road Sandpit, by Mr. F. W. Robarts; Sandstone Boulder, 
Thornton Heath, by Mr. W. Bruce Bannerman; Gravel Pits, Short- 
lands (two), by Mr. J. H. Baldock; Chalk Pit, Whyteleafe, by Mr. 
J. H. Baldock; and duplicates have been placed in the Committee’s 
Geological Album.—N. F. Rosarts, Hon. Sec. 
PxotocRarHic CoMMITTEE. 
During the past year the Photographic Section have held their 
usual weekly meetings. 
The attendance of members has not been large, but during the 
latter part of the year members have shown a greater inclination to 
attend meetings on those occasions when the lantern was in use. 
It is probable that many more of the seventy members of the Club 
who are known to be interested in Photography would attend, if the 
room in which the meetings of the section are held were larger. 
Several very interesting papers have been read, and no doubt many 
members would have attended if a special circular had been sent out 
drawing their attention to them; but, seeing that an attendance of 
fifteen taxes the accommodation to the utmost, it has not been con- 
sidered desirable to take any special measures to obtain a larger 
attendance of members. 
A series of lectures on elementary photographic subjects would, no 
doubt, be appréciated by the junior members now joining the Club, 
and probably by many others, and would tend to give the section the 
position it should hold in Croydon as a Photographic centre; but in 
the absence of accommodation for anything but a small audience, it 
is perhaps inadvisable to undertake any such series of lectures. 
