38 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



The meeting was then adjourned to the 3rd January, when W. 

 Carruthers, Esq., F.E.S., wdll read a paper. 



Donations to the Library and Cabinet, from Nov. 1st to Dec. 6th, 



1871 :— 



From 



Land and Water. Weekly Tlie Editor. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Nature. Weekly Editor, 



Athenseum. Weekly Ditto. 



Spot Lens for Low Powers Mr. Chas. Baker. 



Journal of the London Institution, No. 8 Institution. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 108 .. Society. 

 Two Slides of Micro-ruling on Glass. By John S. 



Stanistreet, Esq Author. 



Twelve Slides of Insects' Scales Chevalier H. de Cerhecq. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — 



Joseph F. Payne, B.A. Oxon. 

 John Eogers, Esq. 

 Charles H. Eoper, M.R.C.S. 

 Charles Croydon, Esq. 



Walter W. Ekeves, 



Assist.-Secretary, 



Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society. 



October 12th.— Ordinary Meeting. Mr. W. M. Hollis, President, 

 in the chair. 



Messrs. E. H. Moore, A. Creak, J. Cobbett, and Helmsley, were 

 elected ordinary members. 



Mr. Wonfor announced the receipt of ' The Cruise of the Noma,' 

 by Mr. Marshall Hall, from the author, to whom a vote of thanks was 

 given. 



Mr. C. P. Smith announced the discovery of an umbelliferous 

 plant, new to Britain, near the Eace Hill, It was not only a new 

 plant, but a new genus and species as well. 



A paper by Dr. Stevens, of St. Mary Bourne, " On the Flint Works 

 at Cissbury," in the absence of that gentleman, was read by Mr. 

 Wonfor. 



After alluding to the peculiar botany and zoology of the South 

 Do\Mis, and pointing to the evident connection existing between'some 

 of the highest peaks, both in a geological point of view and also as 

 positions likely to be occupied, either as camjis of defence at one 

 time, or as a series of encampments to keep down a subjugated race, 

 at another, especial attention was directed to Cissbuiy, as bearing 

 marks not only of having been occupied as an entrenched camp 

 during Eoman days, as evidenced by implements, pottery, dec, found 

 in and about the sixty acres enclosed within the ramparts or entrench- 

 ments, but to its having been what might be called the " Flint 

 Sheffield of Sussex," where an early people fashioned rude flint 

 implements, and where they or a later people, used a very rude kind 



