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The paper was well illustrated by diagrams and specimens of 
lava and other volcanic productions. It was supplemented by re- 
marks from the Rev. C. Bosanquet, Mr. Scholey, the Secretary, 
and one or two others. 
Aveust 6TH, 1884. 
The Session was brought to a close by a Field Day at Lydden 
Spout, a picturesque spot at the foot of the cliffs between Folke- 
stone and Dover. By,the kindness of the §.E.R. Company the 
1.24 train from Folkestone halted at the Spout to allow members 
to alight. 
In the course of the afternoon the Secretary read the following 
_ paper :— 
In the very short paper which I am to read to-day it will be my 
object not so much to write on any one particular branch or division 
of Natural History, as to give hints or make suggestions which each 
mind may follow out as it chooses. The lecture room and the 
evening meeting are good for summing up and pondering over 
what has been done; the field day is best spent by getting a 
personal practical acquaintance with the facts of Nature for our- 
selves. To learn what to look for, and how to look for it, to recognize 
it when we see it,—not so simple a task as it might appear—and 
then to put these facts and phenomena together and ask; What do 
they mean ?—That I take it is the best way to reap advantage from 
_ meetings such as these. 
Our locality is,as most of you know, one specially favoured by 
nature, there is scarcely any branch of Natural History which may 
not be practically studied at Folkestone with exceptional success. 
And so it has become, especially to London naturalists, a kind of 
_ El Dorado, and all day long, through all the too short summer, we 
_ see the geologist’s hammer, the entomologist’s net, and the botanist’s 
 yasculum called into action. 
_ And certainly on the spot where we are now gathered, most of 
these advantages are concentrated. I have no doubt we shall very 
uickly resolve ourselves into small compact bodies, each led away 
- by some special study. 
_To the geologist, to any one who recognises that the earth around 
him is full of secrets, these perpendicular cliffs must be suggestive 
of many thoughts—forming, as they do, the very edge, the boundary 
