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of tusks of Hlephas have been found. The gravel was found to be 
much eroded in some places, and the axes of the stones composing the 
gravel were found to be frequently almost vertical. Some worked 
flints (eolithic) were found by two or three members of the party, and 
fragments of mammoth tusk were seen. 
December 12th.—Mr. Whitaker conducted an excursion to see the 
flow of the Bourne. The party, numbering twenty-one, walked from 
Upper Warlingham to Purley. They found the Bourne commenced 
in the field opposite the ‘ Rose and Crown’ Inn, just above the Gas 
Company’s new gasometer. At the back of the ‘ Rose and Crown’ it 
was flowiug freely, and the party was informed by Mr. Walker, 
engineer to the Kast Surrey Waterworks, that the flow had risen to 
500,000 gallons per diem. Mr. Walker subsequently showed the party 
over the Kenley-Waterworks, and then took them to the engine-house 
at Foxley Hatch, where boulders of pudding-stone, taken from the 
gravel, were pointed out. 
The Committee desire to record their thanks to Mr. Charles L. 
Morgan, engineer to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ; 
Mr. Brown, and Mr. Iles, for permission to visit respectively the New 
Cross cutting, the Atherfield clay-pit, Earlswood Common, and the 
gravel-pit at Mitcham; and to Mr. Walker, engineer of the Hast 
Surrey Waterworks, for showing the members of the Section over the 
works under his charge at Kenley and Purley.—N. F. Rosarrts, 
Hon. Sec. 
MicroscopicaL ComMMITTEE. 
The Microscopical Section, though it has not yet done great things, 
has shown some sign of life, and will, in time, it is hoped, quite 
recover from its long trance, and fully justify its existence. 
In March, a joint meeting of the Botanical and Microscopical 
Sections was held, subject ‘‘ Microscopic Plants and Fresh-water 
Alge,” which was well attended, and a great success in every way. 
Consequently, the next month a joint meeting of the Geological and 
Microscopical Sections was next held, subject ‘‘ Geological Micro- 
scopy”; this was also a great success. Encouraged by these suc- 
cesses, it was decided, after the long summer holidays, to have a 
meeting of the Microscopical Section without extraneous aid. This 
meeting was also most encouraging as regards the members present, 
and the interest which the paper read by Mr. Lester Reed, one of the 
members of the Committee, aroused. Its subject was ‘‘ The Micro- 
scope and Food Adulteration.”’ It was fully illustrated by Mr. Reed’s 
own sketches and microscopic slides. The paper has been printed in 
full, as it was thought a summary would not do it justice. 
Museum CommMitTEE. 
The Museum Committee have pleasure in reporting that the Town 
Hall Loan Museum still continues to attract interest from the visitors 
to the Free Library, and it is much to be regretted that more objects 
cannot be exposed to view, as numbers of persons do not open the 
drawers to see the contents; and many of those who do are children, 
who shake them, and in so doing confuse the specimens and dis- 
arrange the labels. It is a question whether it would not be better to 
keep the drawers locked, if arrangements could be made for the key to 
be obtained if really required. 
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