30 Proceedings. 
The Summer Excursions were fewer in number than is usual ; 
they were fairly well attended :— 
Whole Day. 
May 11.—Ockley. 
June 22.—Fittleworth and Lavington. 
Sept. 7.—Send and Newark Abbey. 
Oct. 5.—Ardingly. 
Afternoon. 
April 27.—Bury Hill, Dorking. 
June 1.—Godstone. 
Sept. 21.—Three Bridges and Worth. 
The following Officers were elected for the coming year :— 
President. Mr. Frederick Hughes. 
Joint Secretaries. Messrs. G. E. Frisby and C. E. Bales 
Treasurer, Miss Ethel Sargant. 
Curator. Mr. John Tanel: 
Committee. Rev. E. J. Barker, Rev. R. A. Bullen, 
Dr. T. A. Chapman, Mrs. Powell, Messrs. 
J. B. Crosfield, S.'T.-Klein, C. E. Salmon, 
A. Trower, and W. H. Tyndall. 
Mr. A. B. Harding, Fellow of the Physical Society, gave a 
lecture entitled 
From Croup To GuactEr, 
illustrated by the oxy-hydrogen lantern and numerous brilliant 
and successful experiments. 
The forms of clouds were dealt with and some beautiful 
photographs shown on the screen. To illustrate the excessive 
cold produced by evaporation, an iron cylinder containing 100 
gallons of liquid carbon dioxide (carbonic acid gas) was slightly 
opened by a valve; the liquid escaped as gas, but in becoming 
gas it gave up its heat and became frozen, falling into a 
receptacle as the snow of carbon dioxide. Plunging a ther- 
mometer into the snow, mercury froze at a temperature of 
