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of the Camp hill this white sand is the lowest bed now exposed. 

 Above it is a greenish sand, with rounded black flint pebbles, 

 the lowermost of the Woolwich beds ; above this again is a bed 

 of strong reddish loam, also used for foundry purposes. Next 

 above this come some 8 ft. of laminated grey clay, crowded with 

 fossils, mostly fragmentary. Though individuals are abundant, 

 the species represented are comparatively few. The following 

 only were found : — Ostrea tenera and bellovacina, Cyrena cunci- 

 formis and cordata, Melanin inquinata, and a Cerithium. Above the 

 shell-bed is a clay vdth few fossils, and above this again are the 

 pebble-beds of the Oldhaven series, here some 14 ft. thick. Some 

 fossils from the chalk were obtained from the workmen, among 

 them being fish remains, Inoceramus sp., Terebratula semiglobosa, 

 Ananchytes ovatus, Micraster cor-anguinum, and a spine of Cidaris. 

 The party were indebted to Mr. Gilbert, of Charlton, by whom 

 the pits are worked, for much valuable information, as well as 

 for permission to visit them. Photographs were obtained by 

 several members, but in other branches little was done. Of 

 plants, Parietaria, Sedum acre, and Corydalis lutea were seen 

 growing on old walls at Eltham, and Agaricus conchatus on a 

 stump on the way thence to Charlton. About the pits at 

 Charlton were found Diplotaxis tenuifolia, Ononis ai-vensis, and 

 Hieracium boreale. These all occurred in Kent. 



On September 16th a fungus hunt at Addington had been 

 announced, but few members turned up, and, owing to the 

 extreme dryness of the ground and air, scarcely any fungi were 

 met with, only two woody perennial species growing on trees, 

 Polyporus betulinus and P. annosus being found. A hve specimen 

 of the mole, Talpa eurojxBa, was taken, and was found swarming 

 with parasites, which at a subsequent meeting were exhibited by 

 Mr. Murton Holmes mounted as microscopic objects. 



Besides the ordinary excursions of the Club, on June 28th, by 

 the kind permission of the Astronomer Eoyal, a hmited number 

 of members visited the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Green- 

 wich Observatory, being pre-eminently a place for scientific work 

 rather than for show, is not open to the general public like Kew 

 Gardens, and the members of the Club were indebted to the 

 good ofiices of Mr. Bayard for the opportunity of seeing it. The 

 Observatory, which was founded by Charles II. in 1675, stands 

 on a limited area of ground on the summit of a steep mound of 

 Thanet sand, 155 ft. high, in Greenwich Park, commanding a 

 fine view over the Thames; its administration is under the 

 Admiralty, and there is a nautical air about it, especially in the 

 way in which the utmost use is made of limited space. The 

 work carried on at Greenwich is twofold, astronomical and 

 meteorological, and the party on arriving at the Observatory was 



