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PROCEEDINGS, 
The best thanks of the Society are due to the Watford Urban 
District Council for allowing the free use of their Council 
Chamber for meetings, and for housing the Society’s Library, 
and to the Committee of the Hertfordshire County Museum for 
the use of the Museum for meetings at St. Albans. 
289th Ordinary Meeting, 12th April, 1910, at Watford. 
G. W. Lampltjgh, F.B.S., V.P.G-.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Charles Oldham, P.Z.S., called attention to the deception 
which has been practised for nearly a century at least by certain 
dealers in fossils at Whitby, whereby the legend is perpetuated 
which ascribes the Ammonites found in the Lias rocks of that 
neighbourhood to the piety of Saint Hilda, whose prayers turned 
snakes into stone, and he exhibited Ammonites from Whitby on 
which heads meant to represent those of snakes had been rudely 
caryed. 
Field Meeting, 16th April, 1910. 
SANDY LODGE GOLF LINKS, NORTHWOOD. 
It is the sand of the Beading Beds which gave the name to 
Sandy Lodge Farm, and doubtless, from the character of the 
soil, suggested its conversion into golf-links. Although Uorth- 
wood is in Middlesex, the whole of the area acquired by the 
Sandy Lodge G-olf Club is in Hertfordshire. A field-path from 
Hamper Mills to Batchworth Heath crosses the links, which are 
thus easily accessible from Watford. 
The object of this meeting was to examine sections of the 
Beading Beds exposed in the construction of the links. It was 
held in conjunction with the Geologists’ Association and under 
the direction of Mr. Henry Kidner, F.G.S., who has supplied 
the following information. 
Exceptionally good exposures of the Beading sand and 
pebble-beds were examined. One section, in a deep pit, showed 
from 12 to 15 feet of fine pale sand, with green bands averaging 
about an inch in thickness, but the sand had been proved to 
a depth of at least 20 feet. Hear the new G-olf Pavilion a bed 
of gravel was seen, consisting entirely of flint-pebbles in a sandy 
matrix. It is 4 feet or somewhat more in thickness. In the 
south-west corner of the area 6 feet or more of mottled clay 
caps the sand. This was mapped in error by the Geological 
Survey as London Clay. In the north-east corner were seen 
pebbles resting on pale sand, the pebble-bed having a matrix of 
pale sand, and the pebbles being from about 1 in. to 2 ins. long. 
A short distance to the east of the old farm-house Beading- 
sand was seen, exposed to a depth of 6 ft., with bedded flint- 
pebbles at the bottom, and two bands of scattered pebbles in 
