PROCEEDINGS OF GENERAL MEETINGS. 



The first General Meeting of the Society held at Hythe, 

 July 5th, 1861. 



According to the programme of the proceedings, the 

 Excursionists assembled at the Westenhanger Station. The 

 following were among' those present. — The Very Reverend 

 the Dean of Canterbury, Miss Alford, Rev. F. J. Scott, Rev. 

 B. Kingsford, H. B. Mackeson, Esq., W. P. Hoare, Esq., 

 Mrs. Hoare, F. H. Sankey, Esq., T. Hatfield, Esq. and family. 

 Miss Thurston, Mr. Horsley, A. B. Andrews, Esq., W. 

 Bridges, G. Dowker, Esq., &c., &c.. 



Near the Station was found Dianthus Caryophyllus, appar- 

 ently wild. 



The Excursionists under the guidance of H. B. Mackeson, 

 Esq., crossed the field at the left of the Station; ilr. Mackeson 

 pointing out to the party, the valley running in an Easterly 

 direction, formed in the Lower Green-sand and caused by the 

 denudation of the Atherfield Clay, the lowest division of the 

 Greensand ; and which from its yielding nature, was seldom 

 seen in sections, being at the base of the valley. He explained 

 that by Geologists the Lower Green- sand formation was divi- 

 ded into three, consisting of, firstly. White and Yellow or 

 Ferruginous Sand, with concretions of Limestone and Chert ; 

 secondly of green coloured Calcareous Stone, called Kentish 

 Rag ; and lastly of Clay Marl, the Atherfield Beds, named 

 from Atherfield in the Isle of Wight, where this stratum 

 is very extensive). The upper of the series, viz. the sand 



