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of the hills was the Chalk Marl. Then towards the bottom of the 
escarpment the Totternhoe Stone was to he found ; the slopes con¬ 
sisted of Grey Chalk; the Melbonrn Eock cropped out just below 
the summits; and the plateau above consisted of the rocky and 
shelly chalk of the Rhynchonella Cuvieri zone. 
On the plateau were some patches of glacial gravel, and Mr. A. 
E. Gibbs pointed out that these gravel beds contained fossils which 
belonged to the Gault, and which had been re-deposited in their 
present position. 
The members then proceeded to Barton Hills Earm, where an 
at fresco tea was partaken of. They subsequently drove to Luton, 
and before leaving for home visited the fine ornithological collection 
of Mr. Cane, in Wellington Street. Much admiration was ex¬ 
pressed at the splendidly-mounted specimens of birds and other 
animals, and a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Cane for throwing 
open his museum for inspection. A similar vote was accorded to 
Mr. W. Hare, who acted as leader of the party, and had made all 
the necessary arrangements. During the day no less than seven 
species of orchids, including the fly and the bee, were found, as 
well as a number of other uncommon plants. 
The orchids were as follows:— Lister a ovata , E. Br., Orchis 
ustulata , L., 0. latifolia , L., 0. maculata, L., Gymnadenia conopsea , 
E. Br., Ophrys apifera , Huds., and 0. muscifera, Huds. The other 
more interesting plants were Ajuga chamcepitys , Schreb. (ground- 
pine), Crepis taraxacifolia , Thuill., and a peculiar monstrous form 
of Flantago lanceolata , L. 
Eield Meeting, 19th July, 1890. 
SHENLEY AND EADLETT. 
In July, 1884, the members of the Hertfordshire Natural History 
Society and of the Geologists’ Association of London paid a visit to 
Newberries, under the guidance of Mr. Hopkinson, to inspect a pit 
in which the Hertfordshire conglomerate was believed to occur in 
situ . After a lapse of six years the same spot was now again visited 
under the direction of Mr. Upfield Green, and in anticipation of the 
event the pit had been further developed and opened up, by the 
kindness of Mr. Henry Lubbock, the present owner of the estate. 
The bed previously seen was now found to consist of large and 
small blocks of conglomerate embedded in clay, overlying a stratum 
of black-coated pebbles of irregular size, and much intermingled 
with sand and clay. 
The Director, referring to a plan and sections of the locality on a 
large scale, pointed out that the spot on which they were then 
standing should be occupied by the upper beds of the Woolwich 
and Heading Series, and that the basement-bed, if existing at all 
near that spot, should be at some distance further north. He, 
however, believed that the surface no longer consisted of these beds 
in situ , but that they had been re-arranged and intermixed with 
detritus of the London Clay washed down from the higher ground 
