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tickets £14 7s. 6d., and from the sale of Transactions 7s. Od., 

 which, with the balance in hand on the Ist of January, 1889, £32 

 10s. 7d., amounted to £179 5s. Id. On the other side, the 

 payments have been £169 19s. 5d., leaving a balance in hand 

 of £9 5s. 8d. 



Special Fund. — Balance, 1st January, 1889, £38 16s. 2d. ; 

 dividends on 2J per cent, stock, £5 18s. 2d. On the other side, 

 for payment, optical lantern and lenses complete, £13 10s. 3d. ; 

 2 steel gas bottles and screen and stand, £5 9s. Balance of 

 this fund in hand, 31st December, 1889, £25 15s. Id. Balance 

 at bankers, 31st December, 1889, £35 Os. 9d. Invested in 2| 

 per cent, stock, £210 lis. 8d. 



The reports of the different sections show that a large amount 

 of work has been executed by the several Committees. Thus 

 Mr. Mennell, the Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Sub- 

 Committee, reports as follows : — 



The Sub-Committee has made considerable progress with the 

 arrangement and naming of the Chib Herbariimi ; but the mounting 

 of the specimens still remains to be done, and it may be necessary to 

 employ paid assistance to accomplish it. Offers of voluntary help wiU, 

 however, be gladly received as well as further contributions. Several 

 members of the Club have during the past summer added to the Club 

 collection. The conversational evenings for which this Committee 

 was responsible have been devoted to the arrangement of the Herbarium. 

 One of the excursions during the summer was also arranged by it, and 

 was a very interesting and successful occasion. The locality chosen 

 was the remarkable series of large ponds lying between Copthorne and 

 Bowfant and Lingfield. They occupy a broad flat vaUey surrounded 

 by wooded hills. Through the valley a stream flows which eventually 

 finds its way into the Medway. The abundance of wood for conversion 

 into charcoal, its nearness to the iron deposits of Tilgate Forest, 

 together with the water-supply, natiu-ally led to the selection of this 

 locality for the establishment of the iron works both for smelting and 

 forging. The valley was dammed across at three points with solid 

 masonry, and three large ponds or lakes were thus artificially formed, 

 the names of two of which, Hammer Pond and "Wire Mill Pond, 

 perpetuate their purpose, though the industry has long since completely 

 disappeared from the district. The dams have gradually fallen into 

 decay, thus lowering the level of the water, and leaving large marshy 

 tracts about the margins, presenting in their scenery, surroundings 

 and vegetation a close resemblance to the Fens and Broads of the 

 Eastern Counties; all appearance of their artificial origin has long 

 been obhterated. The party alighted at Horley Station, and drove 

 thence by Burstow and Copthorne Common to within a short distance 

 of the upper pond. By the roadside Geranium striatum was very 

 abundant, but it was across the Siurrey boundary, in Sussex. Devious, 

 and not easily found, footpaths through thick woods, connect the ponds. 

 In these woods the bird's-nest orchis {Listera Nidus-avis) was noticed. 

 Here in spring also wild daffodils abound. The best botanical locality, 

 however, is the extensive marsh at the head of the Middle or Wire 

 Mill Pond. The smaller butterfly orchis {Habenaria hifolia) and the 



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