xlvi Proceedings. 
April 18th.—New Cross Gate. Conductor, Mr. N. F. Robarts, 
F.G.S. 
April 80th.—Kew Gardens. Conductor, Mr. H. T. Mennell, 
F.L.S. 
May 14th.—Beddington Caves and Subway. Conductor, Mr. 
DK. Pape. 
On Saturday, May 14th, by the kind permission of Mr. Trollope, 
about thirty members of the Society inspected the sand caves 
close by the Plough Inn, Beddington Lane. They are cut into 
the Thanet sand deposit which forms the hill on which is placed 
the new cemetery of Beddington and Wallington. The larger 
of the two caves consists of a tunnel some ten feet or so in 
diameter, whose main branch runs some three hundred feet or 
so into the hill. They are apparently of artificial origin, and 
it has been suggested that this tunnel formed part of a passage, 
largely subterranean, which connected a Roman villa situated on 
the flat land, now occupied by the Croydon sewage farm, with 
the Roman fortified camp of Noviomagus placed on the Wood- 
cote Hill, such passage being intended for use in time of danger 
when the dwellers on the plain would desire to seek the greater 
safety of the military camp on the uplands. 
After leaving the caves, the party paid short visits to the 
cutting in Sandy Lane and to the Almshouses in Bute Road ; 
and then, at the kind invitation of the President, took tea in his 
garden at Wallington, and examined with respect and awe the 
numerous scientific contrivances which he has in use there to 
catch and record the fleeting vagaries of the English weather. 
May 19th.—Botanical. Mr. Lloyd’s Garden, Coombe Wood. 
Conductor, Dr. Franklin Parsons, F.G.S8. 
May 23rd, Whit Monday (whole day).—Holmwood, Leith Hill, 
Wotton, and Dorking. Conductor, the President. 
This excursion was favoured by good weather, and a good 
number of members attended. On arriving at Holmwood Station 
the party went across fields to Anstiebury, the site of an old 
Roman camp, the traces of which are clearly defined. On the 
way some water was passed, but all attempts to obtain Mollusca 
were in vain. From Holmwood to the borders of Leith Hill past 
Coldharbour the route lay over the Wealden Beds, but on passing 
through the latter place the change to the Lower Greensand 
(Hythe) Beds was apparent. Some of the party went up Leith 
Hill by the more direct route from Coldharbour, so as to enjoy 
the burst of view obtainable over Surrey and Sussex by ap- 
proaching the summit from the high ground to the north, while 
