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were commented upon, a halt being made a little farther on to 
examine another, the bottom and sides of which are curved. Just 
beyond the point where the Icknield Way crosses the road from 
Hemel Hempstead to Leighton Buzzard, a closer inspection of one 
of these little valleys was made, but this was a true river-valley, 
and not a dry coombe owing its origin to a time when the water- 
level in the Chalk was higher than it is now. At its head is 
a spring rising from beneath the Totternlioe Stone, and along its 
course other springs arise, for it flows nearly" parallel with the 
strike of the rocks at the base of the Totternlioe Stone. Its sides 
are steep at first, then much less so, the ridge thus formed being 
believed to indicate the summit of the Totternhoe Stone, above 
which the Chalk, being softer, has a more gentle slope. 
It was here decided not to go on to Well Head, two miles further 
on the Icknield Way r , where similar phenomena occur on a larger 
scale, and the return journey was commenced, the Hempstead road 
being taken as far as Dagnall. The road continues through the 
■ ‘ Dagnall gap,” as this break in the continuity of the downs may 
be termed, and meets the head of the River Gade, by the side 
of which it then runs. It was left at Dagnall, and soon a long 
ascent commenced to Ringsall, where there is a small outlier of the 
Reading Beds, one of those farthest removed from the main mass. 
On arriving at Little Gaddesden tea was provided at the 
“ Bridgewater Arms,” all who started from Tring Station, fifteen in 
number, partaking of it. On the proposition of the Rev. J. F. 
Blake a vote of thanks was passed to the Director, and then the 
return journey was continued through Ashridge Park and over 
Berkhamsted Common, where the gorse was in full bloom, to 
Berkhamsted Station. Here one member of the Geologists’ 
Association left the party’ to return by train, the others iycling 
on with the Director and Mrs. Hopkinson to their home near 
Watford, and leaving there after dark for London and elsewhere, 
one by train, the others cycling. 
The weather was perfect, and the route as pretty a one as could 
well be taken within easy- distance of London. 
Field Meeting, 27th June, 1903. 
FEW GARDENS. 
The party, under the direction of the President, Mr. B. Day don 
Jackson, Sec. L.S., who has furnished this report, assembled at the 
main gates of the Gardens facing Kew Green. 
The first house visited was the Aroid House, containing also 
plants whose growth-requirements are similar; thence, passing by 
Kew Palace and the Old Orangery, the houses devoted to Temperate 
and Tropical Ferns and the Hymenophylkim : annexe were visited; 
and then the Greenhouse, always worth inspection. Some com- 
paitments of the T-range were next gone through, special attention 
being given to the Orchids, the carnivorous plants, and the Pitcher 
