CXXX Proceedings. 
Reports of Sections for 1902. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ARCHEOLOGICAL CoMMITTER. 
During the past year there have been six meetings of the Committee 
and six meetings of the Section. There was also a special informal 
meeting of the Committee on July 8th for the purpose of discussing 
and comparing notes as to the important discovery of underground 
chambers at Waddon. This matter has been of considerable interest 
to this Section, as well as to the Society generally, and has had the 
effect of stimulating research in the special work of the Section. A 
paper on the subject, illustrated by lantern-slides and specimens, was 
read before the Society in October last, and a large audience assembled 
to hear it. This paper appears in the present part of the Society’s 
‘ Transactions.’ 
An excursion under the direction of this Section was made in May 
last to Keston and the neighbourhood, when the members inspected 
Roman masonry at War Bank, and some of Saxon or early Norman 
workmanship at Keston Church. A good many neolithic implements 
were collected by some of the members from the surface of the fields. 
The following gentlemen have exhibited objects at the sectional 
meetings :—Messrs. Collyer, Gower, Hogg, Lovett, Moore, Robarts, 
Slack, Tarver, Voss, and Clinch. 
It is highly satisfactory to be able to report a substantial increase 
in the number of members attending the meetings, as well as an 
equally important improvement in the number and character of the 
exhibits. It has been arranged that a special subject shall be selected 
a month in advance for each meeting, and recently the subject has 
been announced in the monthly circular. This plan has been found 
very useful, because it enables all the members to focus their efforts 
upon a particular subject on the same evening, and the result is that 
many objects are brought for exhibition which assist very materially 
in illustrating the particular subject agreed upon. The following are 
some of the subjects which have been discussed in this way :—Scrapers 
of the Stone age and their modern representatives; hammerstones ; 
neolithic hoes and other agricultural tools ; primitive pottery. 
Substantial progress has been made with the work of marking the 
archeological map of Surrey. The chief paleolithic, neolithic, and 
bronze age discoveries have been marked, and it is proposed to proceed 
with the Roman and Anglo-Saxon remains early in the New Year.— 
GrorGE Cuincy, Hon. Sec. 
BoranicaL ComMITTEE. 
The Botanical Committee have to’ report that progress has been 
made in the investigation of the flora of some of the commons near 
Croydon, though the observers who have undertaken the enumeration 
of the plants of other of these commons have been unable for one 
reason or another to make any further additions to the figures recorded 
in our last report. The numbers now stand:—Shirley Hills, 174; 
Croham Hurst, 253; Mitcham Common, 461; Riddlesdown, 167; 
