higher than that of the air throughout the month. The Stour being a 

 running stream, the surface was not frozen, even with the air temperature 

 at 18 0; on the contrary, the water temperature on these days (13th and 

 14th) is recorded at 36° and 37", that is 18° or 19" wai'mer than the air. 

 The wind for the most part was from the cold quarter, viz. : E. and 

 ^N'.E. A fall of snow occurred on the 18th, with the wind at E.S.E. ; 

 and again on the 27th. The weather throughoiit the month was dull 

 and cold. 



It only remains to state that the observations referred to in this 

 paper were taken at the same place and time, and by the same person, 

 Mr. Henry Dean, as those previously recorded, the depth of water being 

 about two feet in the ordinary state of the river, increasing to three 

 feet or more when it is in flood. The direction of the stream is from 

 S.W. to ]Sr.E. The banks are low, and shaded with trees. 



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XVIII. 



REPORT OF E.K.N. H.S.' EXCURSION" TO RECULVER, 



On August 13th, 1891, 



Mr. G. DOWKER, F.G.S. 

 Tlie Excursion was a very successful one and was well attended, 

 a contingent of Dover Members joining the waggonettes at Canterbury. 

 The route to Reculver was taken by road from Canterbury, via Slurry, 

 Bloomfield, Heme, and Beltinge, where the party alighted, and were 

 conducted by Mr. Dowker to Old Haven Gap, Bishopstone. 



Mr. Dowker gave a short accoiint of the geological features 

 exhibited in the cliff sections, pointing out the divisions between the 

 London clay beds, the Old Haven and basement beds, the AYoolwich 

 beds, and the Thanet beds. The dip in the strata towards the N. West 

 brings these beds to the surface in succession, and nearly the whole 

 of the lower London tertiary beds were here exhibited, except the 

 lowest of the Thanet, that rested on the chalk which had been 

 denuded by the "Wantsum estuary that separated Thanet from the 

 mainland. This last of the Eocene series was here 80 to 90 feet thick 

 as had been proved by a well sunk at Reculver, reaching to the chalk. 

 Mr. Dowker referred to the great changes that had taken place along the 

 shore by the advance of the shore line along the cliffs, and the constant 

 change on the fore shore caused by the accumulation or removal of beach 

 and land, so that on the many occasions during the last thirty yei.rs when 

 he had visited this spot, it had never presented the same appearance 

 twice in succession. This gap at one time yielded a rich harvest of 

 fossil shells in the strata exposed at low water, which were now hidden 

 beneath sand and beach. From this point the excursionists walked 

 beneath the cliff to the Reculver Church ; Mr. Dowker pointing out the 

 fossiliferous beds in passing. 



