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in the problems connected with the Wealden area was 

 eminently suitable for that combined action which local 

 societies and field clubs are well fitted to provide.' 



" The papers read before the Congress included ' Some 

 Considerations concerning Dew-ponds,' by Mr. Edward A. 

 Martin, F.G.S. ; 'A Contribution to the Spider Fauna of the 

 District around Hastings,' by Messrs. W. Ruskin Butterfield 

 and W. H. Bennett; 'Gilbert White and Sussex,' by Mr. 

 W. H. Mullens, M.A., L.L.M. ; 'Local Sponges,' by Mr. 

 Edward Connold, F.Z.S., F.E.S. ; 'Mediaeval Timbered 

 Houses of Sussex and Kent,' by Mr. John E. Ray ; ' Pleisto- 

 cene Vertebrates of the South-East of England,' by Mr. W. 

 J. Lewis Abbott, F.G.S. ; and 'Darwinism as applied to 

 Dress,' by Mr. W. Mark Webb, F.L.S. 



"On Friday evening a Reception was held by the Mayor 

 of Hastings (Alderman R. W. Mitchell, M.A., J. P.) in the 

 Town Hall, and was well attended. During the evening, 

 among other attractions, a lecture, illustrated by the lantern, 

 was given by Mr. Wintour F. Gwinnell, F.G.S., on ' The 

 Reptile Monsters of Mesozoic Times, with especial reference 

 to the Iguanodon.' 



" The afternoons of the four days during which the Con- 

 gress lasted were given up to excursions to various places of 

 interest in the neighbourhood, and these included visits to 

 St. Clement's Caves and Hastings Castle, at the latter of 

 which Mr. Harold Sands, F.S.A., read a paper, in which he 

 dealt exhaustively with the history of the castle from its 

 foundation until the present time. To Battle Abbey and 

 Church, when the Very Rev. E. R. Curry, D.D., acted as 

 leader, and pointed out the matters of interest connected 

 with these ancient structures. To Dungeness, under the 

 leadership of Mr. W. C. T. Beasley, M.A., and Dr. H. 

 Stanley ; the party were met by Col. H. Finn, who, with his 

 keeper, conducted them over his private grounds, pointing 

 out the breeding places and nests of many of the shore 

 and other birds in the shingle and ponds, the excursion 

 being a particularly interesting one, especially to the zoolo- 

 gist and botanists. To Rye, when Mr. J. Adams conducted 

 the party to the many places of interest which this ancient 

 town contains ; the party afterwards being entertained to tea 

 by the Mayor (Councillor Kingsnorth Reeve, J. P.). And, 

 finally, to numerous places of geological interest in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the town of Hastings, when 

 Mr. Lewis Abbott, F.G.S., F.R.A.I., conducted. 



"The Congress Museum, which was arranged at Trinity 



