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whitebeam trees, while the lower growhig species include, among 

 many others, quantities of marjoram, salad-burnet, wood-sage, wood- 

 sanicle, rock-rose, mignonette, Ga/ii/?n, Hypericum, woodruff, etc. 

 Such an assortment should surely provide good collecting in any 

 order, except perhaps aquatic species, for although there is no lack 

 of water, it is hardly of the sort to harbour them ; and so far as I 

 have been able to ascertain, Mollusca are less abundant than the class 

 of country might reasonably lead one to expect — that is, if we except a 

 thriving colony of Helix poj?iatia, from which some very fine 

 examples may be obtained. 



Having thus described the place, it now remains for me to briefly 

 report upon the meeting held there and the results obtained. 



On the afternoon of Saturday, June 21st, some dozen members 

 met one another at Holborn Viaduct Station of the London, Chat- 

 ham, and Dover Railway, with questioning looks as to whether such 

 a muster was worthy the name of a South London Field Meeting, 

 and, with some misgivings, proceeded by the 2.37 train to Otford. 

 Happily others joined them en route, and so made up a total attend- 

 ance of seventeen — -a poor muster when compared with many of the 

 meetings of recent years, but probably as large as might be expected 

 having regard to the unusual number of meetings fixed for the 

 summer months and the prevailing unsettled condition of weather. 

 Li this matter, however, we were singularly fortunate, a couple of 

 slight showers that fell during the afternoon tending to freshen the 

 foliage and soften the air, and caused no inconvenience to any, 

 other than perhaps those desirous of beating for larvre, and then 

 only for the short time necessary for the gentle breeze to dry the 

 rain-drops from the trees. 



The route taken, on leaving the station yard, was to the right over 

 the railway bridge and along the road leading to Kemsing ; and at a 

 few yards beyond the point where the road from Shoreham joins is a 

 footpath on the left hand, which leads beside the garden of the 

 cottage attached to the kennels of the West Kent Hunt, thence up 

 a steep hill, over a bit of down land between Hillydea land Flatdeal 

 Woods, and eventually terminates at the top of the hill where three 

 lanes meet. This is the highest point in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood, and some 670 feet above sea level. Some of the party 

 proceeded by the footpath just mentioned ; others continued along 

 the road towards Kemsing until the lodge gates were reached, 

 where, taking the lane on the left hand and skirting the opposite 

 side of Flatdeal Wood, ultimately met the other members of the 

 party at the hilltop. Now taking the lane on the right towards 

 Woodlands for a short half-mile, and just after a sharp dip in the 

 road and past a couple of cottages on the right hand known as 

 " Monks in the Hole," another and narrower lane goes off at a right 

 angle on the right hand. Proceeding by this way, again for barely 

 half a mile, the lane passes through a corner of Rowdow Wood and 

 reaches the brow of an old quarry and a patch of broken-down 



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