EEPOET OF THE COUNCIL 

 FOE THE YEAE 1885. 



The Council have much pleasure in presenting the Eeport 

 for the seventh year of tlie Association's existence. 



The success of the Association has been continuous since 

 its establishment in 1879, and the Council are able to append 

 a satisfactory financial statement. 



The Lectures delivered before the Association by Mr. J. 

 •G. Goodchild, F.G.S., F.Z.S., Mr. C. E. Peek, M.A., F.E.A.S., 

 r.KG.S., r.K.Met.Soc., Mr. Henry Walker, F.G.S., Mr. G. 

 G. Chisholui, M.A., B.Sc, F.R.G.S., Mr. P. W. Ames, F.R.G.S., 

 F.R.S.L., ]Mr. Carl Ambruster, and Mr. TV. Mattieu Williams, 

 F.E.A.S., were well attended, and it is believed that the members 

 and their friends appreciated their highly-interesting and 

 instructive cliaracter. 



Xo discovery has rewarded the researches of the Sub- 

 Committee on Pre-historic ]\Ian during the year, though a watch 

 has been kept upon aU excavations in the neighbourhood. 



Professor Armstrong, F.R.S., attended as Delegate at the 

 Aberdeen Meeting of the British Association, of which the 

 Lewisham and Blackheath Association is a duly recognised 

 corresponding Society. 



Mr. T. V. Holmes, the President, having suggested to the 

 Metropolitan Board of AVorks that plates should be placed to 

 mark the site of the two subsidences whicli occurred on 

 Blackheath in the years 1878 and 1880, and which are marked " A " 

 and " B " on the plan attached to the Report on the subsidences 

 issued in July, 1881, the Council have to announce that the 

 suggestion has been carried out, and that metal plates have 

 been fixed at the points referred to. They bear an inscription 

 similar in appearance to that which, at the request of Sir G. B. 

 Airy, was placed on the Heath at " C " in July, 1882. 



