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and red clay 3 ft., pale Reading sand 6 ft.; total 15 ft. A quarter 
of a mile north of Little Oxhey Lane the Reading clay was seen 
to be 10 ft. thick. A thin band of black flint-pebbles and 
traces of fossils were seen along the top of the clay, with the 
“ basement-bed ” consisting of 3 or 4 ft. of brown loam with 
a shell-band and traces of fossils throughout. A good specimen 
of Cy'prina Morrisii was found. 
Tea was taken at the Railway Hotel, Woodridings, Pinner. 
291st Ordinary Meeting, 11th October, 1910, at Watford. 
William Bickerton, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Vice-President, in 
the Chair. 
Mr. P. Be Ath was elected a Member of the Society. 
Mr. H. Alfred Roechling, F.GkS., M.Inst.C.E., High Fields, 
Radlett, was proposed for membership. 
The Chairman exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Daniel Hill, an 
example of the tawny owl (Syrnium aluco) which had been 
found drowned in a water-butt in a garden at Watford. 
The following lecture was delivered :— 
“ Plumage Birds and their Destruction.” By James 
Buckland, C.B. 
The lecture was illustrated by a large series of coloured 
lantern-slides, and dealt with the slaughter of birds in many 
parts of the world for millinery purposes, and the steps which 
had been taken, when not too late, to prevent the extermination 
of certain species. 
A vote of thanks to the lecturer was accorded on the 
proposition of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, seconded by 
Mr. J. L. Bonhote, and supported by Dr. E. Hartert. 
Field Meeting, 5th November, 1910. 
BUSHEY RAILWAY CUTTING. 
This was practically a repetition of the meeting of the 24th 
of September, the same ground being gone over, but the railway 
cuttings examined were in a somewhat different condition owing 
to the progress of the excavations. 
Since the previous examination the Bushey cutting had been 
extended southwards, showing a section about 12 ft. in depth. 
Clay first appeared at the top, replaced southwards by gravel 
of flint-pebbles in a clayey matrix, varying from 2 to 10 ft. in 
thickness. The gravel, in some places with massive lumps of 
clay beneath it, rested upon Reading sand. A little south of 
a signal-box 3 or 4 ft. of pebbly gravel rested upon brown and 
pale-grey sand, evidently disturbed, and this again upon pale 
Reading sand in situ, with a very uneven surface. 
